Middle School – Lancaster, PA

Dayspring Middle School Curriculum

Middle School Math: Figuring Interactive Lessons

Since most middle school students seek social interaction with their peers, Dayspring的老师设计合作项目和其他混合学习活动来引导学生的精力, capture their attention, and enable subject mastery.

For instance, math teachers have students read, discuss, then present findings of a non-fiction article relating to a biblical view of math. 另一个合作数学项目是让学生们一起创建数学方程，得出日期——一年中每个上学月的每个上学日! 另一种方法是让学生“开”一个支票账户，然后保存准确的购物记录, 同时通过现实生活中的加法和减法练习准确的会计.

当然，这是在中学传统数学课之外的. Because Dayspring offers a handcrafted education, students’ are placed in math courses according to tested aptitudes.

Dayspring students stand on the steps in the Capitol Building in Harrisburg, PA.

Middle School Students Learn God’s Hand in History

What does a middle school Principle Approach history class look like? At Dayspring, in a recent 8th-grade history class, for example, two students suggested that the class debate the role of the Christian, the church, and government! How do they act separately? 这些角色应该如何在一个不全是基督徒的社会中以一种整合的方式发挥作用? 学生们精心设计问题，思考这些适用于他们生活的世界的复杂问题. They discussed responsibilities of the government, but also of the governed. One of those responsibilities that went into immediate action is prayer. The class prays for our congressmen, the president, and for laws that are just and uphold righteousness.

Literature Comes Alive in Middle School

In Literature, 学生钻研阅读和挑战的任务，包括在上帝的话语搜索, 在文学人物中寻找可以模仿的有益的性格特征, and writing their own devotional lines. 与案头工作相反的动手活动被纳入其中，以允许协作技能的发展, social relationships to be forged, and challenge students to take a look at the subject matter from a different angle. 所有这些不同的学习机会有助于掌握所涵盖的材料.

Spiritual Formation in Middle School

Middle school is a key time in a child’s spiritual formation. To that end, during weekly chapel time, students gather in small groups by grade and gender, 每个小组都有一名导师，与学生就手头的话题进行讨论和祈祷. 这为精神社区以及简单的友谊和理解提供了机会, where walls begin to tumble down. Additionally, 一年一度的静修活动将学生们聚集在一起，进行为期两天的体验，其中包括外部演讲者, times of deep prayer—and fun with friends on adventure courses and more!

Further, with God at the center of every subject at Dayspring, 在整个学术经历中，圣经的基础被锻造，精神形态的形成随着圣经世界观的培养和信仰的启发而形成.

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