Taking a First Pass at the Fourth Dimension

  By Jonathan Heiles, HS Science The First Pass course focuses on developing tools to to get a foundation in a range of counterintuitive ideas from advanced math and science. The semester started with practicing  this method through multiple approaches…

High School Science Students Explore Pluto

By Jonathan Heiles, high school and middle school science Just about a year ago students in the Astronomy class gave presentations about planets in the solar system. Knowing that Lucy Lin ’15 was planning on studying astronomy in college, I…

Student Centered Science Learning: Finding the Question (and Answers)

By Jonathan Heiles, HS and MS science Students in the Advanced Experimental Science course are pursuing experimental answers to questions they find engaging. Some of the questions are new and other build on work done by previous Poughkeepsie Day School…

Geology Class Studies Local Outcrops and Fossils

A report by Jonathan Heiles, science teacher, on a field trip-based geology course that is open to 10th – 12th graders  With the opening of the Library branch on Boardman Road, the Geology class gained access to a new outcrop.…