Lower School families recently participated in a collaborative art experience honoring the Great Salt Lake and the creatures that depend on it. The student-led “Art Informance” sought to highlight the need for conservation and preservation as the Great Salt Lake…
By Naomi Kohl, WSD Middle School Art Teacher Perched among the quaking aspens and crisp mountain air of Summit Park, WSD students have a unique vantage point to witness the magic of Utah’s wild heart. The Junior Duck Stamp (JDS)…
The faculty and staff at Weilenmann School of Discovery used a Professional Development Day to step away from our desks and into the community to support the incredible work being done at Neighborhood House in Salt Lake City. This was…
This year brought a major change to WSD’s foreign language program, with the implementation of a Spanish language curriculum for grades 5 – 8. We checked in with new Spanish teacher McKinly Moynier to see how things are going: WSD:…
WSD eighth graders are summarizing what they have learned about the American Revolution. Working in teams, they first chose what they believe are the five most important events of the war, or that led to war. Then they included that…
WSD fourth graders are deep in the “test and tweak” phase of building complex Rube Goldberg machines to do simple tasks. They have transformed their classroom into a sprawling engineering lab full of dominoes, toy cars, cups, improvised tubes, found…
Combining science, technology, engineering, math, and visual arts, WSD eighth graders have designed 1:50 scale models of small, eco-friendly homes for northern Utah sustainable living. The challenge was to design structures that are resilient to northern Utah’s environmental conditions without…
Congratulations to Middle School Math Teacher, Jessica Hunsaker, who was recognized by the Utah State Board of Education in its November Mathematics Teacher Spotlight. “This is such a well deserved honor!” observes Elizabeth Phillips, WSD Principal. “For sixteen years, Jessica…
Middle School science students invited a Lower School class to join a very special “eggs-periment” to test Newton’s 3rd Law of Motion (“For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.”) Students designed and built rockets that, when launched,…
WSD eighth graders are learning a traditional Japanese printing technique called “gyotaku.” Invented by fishermen in the early 1800s, it was used both as a record of their catches and as an art form. “Legend has it,” explains Art teacher…