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Volume 2 Issue 5 of the Lower School’s Jaguar Journal has published. This issue features Mother’s Day, a Recipe, Earth Facts, Jokes/Riddles, Spanish Cuture, Passover, and more!
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6th Graders Fostering Environmental Literacy to Sustain Our Planet
Our 6th grade students spent four days at NatureBridge in the Marin Headlands, participating in hand-on environmental science programs in nature’s classroom. They learned about native plants and animals that…
READ MORE 7th Grade’s Cardboard Arcade
Inspired by Caine’s Arcade, we introduced our own cardboard arcade project in 7th grade science. Students use low-tech tools–cardboard, duct tape, foil–and augment them with higher-tech MaKey MaKey boards and…
READ MORE BPC Teachers Selected for Prestigious Gilder Lehrman Institute Seminars
Aly Mitchell, our eighth grade history & geography teacher, was selected to attend the Gilder Lehrman Foundation’s history seminar on Reconstruction at Columbia University. Led by Professor Eric Foner of…
READ MORE BPC Wins Gold Again!
For the second year in a row, Black Pine Circle was voted best in five school categories in Parents’ Press Best of the Bay 2018. Best Alternative Learning Styles Elementary…
READ MORE Showing Our East Bay Pride
BPC marched in the Oakland Pride Parade for the first time! Our 8th grade students in the Sexuality and Gender Alliance club created the banner that we used to represent…
READ MORE Our Makerspace
We explore the potential of all manner of student making, including 3D and bio-printing, and the process of getting there.
READ MORE School Maker Faire
Inspired by the Maker Faire, students work in teams to accomplish ambitious projects.
READ MORE Student projects at the Synchrotron
At the Lawrence Berkeley Labs Synchrotron, student-brought items are bombarded with electrons.
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