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Students Immerse In Ancient Greek Interactive Museum Project
St. Luke’s 9th-grade students used multiple mediums in a project-based learning activity about Ancient Greek life.
This spring, 9th-grade students participated in a cross-collaborative project creating an interactive museum based on scenes from Greek life and history. Students used packing tape to make life-sized models of Aristotle, Socrates, or Plato. They also recorded short audio tracks highlighting their philosopher's significance. This audio track was then hooked up through a student-made electronic circuit allowing spectators of the projects to play them back. QR-encoded, hand-painted murals; student films; replicas of triremes and loom; as well as the Alexandrian Library and Lighthouse were all part of this hands-on project.
World history teacher Abby Abbott brought the 9th-grade English, art, history, and stagecraft classes together along with the Academic Technology and designLab departments to help make this project-based learning display possible.
St. Luke’s School is a secular (non-religious), private school in New Canaan, CT for grades 5 through 12 serving over 40 towns in Connecticut and New York. Our exceptional academics and diverse co-educational community foster students’ intellectual and ethical development and prepare them for top colleges. St. Luke’s Leading with Humanity curriculum builds the commitment to serve and the confidence to lead.
