WatsonvillePatch.com: Students Play ‘CSI’ In Watsonville Lab On DNA, Forensic Genetics
WatsonvillePatch.com, “Students Play ‘CSI’ In Watsonville Lab On DNA, Forensic Genetics,” by Courtney Teague. Freshman Mount Madonna School students learned about DNA while playing detectives seeking to solve a crime. […]
“Crime” Solvers: Student Sleuths Study DNA
Freshmen students at Mount Madonna School (MMS) have spent some time learning about forensic genetics and the structure of DNA. An unusual recent project engaged the students as “detectives,” who […]
Growing Up in Santa Cruz: Local Photos of the Month, “Seussical”
Growing Up in Santa Cruz, January 2020, Local Photos of the Month Featuring two photos by Sara Sobkoviak, from Mount Madonna School’s recent middle school production of “Seussical Jr.” See the […]
Growing Up in Santa Cruz: Calling All Ideas, Waste-Free 2020 by Lisa Catterall
Growing Up in Santa Cruz, Green Living, “Calling All Ideas: Waste-Free 2020,” by Lisa Catterall. Periodically our faculty comes together to review our school’s mission statement and our three pillars […]
Growing Up in Santa Cruz: Look What I Made! by Hema Walker
Growing Up in Santa Cruz, January 2020, Behind the Teacher’s Desk, “Look What I Made! Academic Achievement and the Creative Process in Preschool and Kindergarten,” by Hema Walker. The joyful […]
Creativity, Physics and Function: Eighth Graders’ “Newton Vehicles”
For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction, Sir Isaac Newton’s third law of motion formalized in his 1687 tome Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy), has […]
Exploring Concepts of “Art”
“What is and what isn’t ‘Art’? Whether viewing an exhibition, considering a public artwork or in the classroom, these two questions frequently spark lengthy discussions among students, artists and people […]
Inspirational Mentors and Building Confidence: Caroline Smith (’17)
My name is Caroline Smith. I graduated from Mount Madonna School (MMS) in 2017 and am currently a junior at Smith College in Massachusetts. At Smith, I’m majoring in history […]
Santa Cruz Sentinel, Opinion: “Waste-free Holiday Celebrations”
Santa Cruz Sentinel, 12/16/2019, Opinon, “Waste-free Holiday Celebrations,” by Lisa Catterall. Periodically our faculty comes together to review our school’s mission statement and our three pillars of Academic Excellence, Positive […]
Second Grade STEAM: Students Design Geometric Puzzles and Share with Pre/K Buddies
Geometry in second grade? It’s never too early to introduce age-appropriate lessons in science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics (STEAM), and Mount Madonna School (MMS) second graders recently worked on […]
