Loudoun School for Advanced Studies

TIE DYE a great way to end another awesome week at LSAS. #creativity #funlearning #ashburnvirginia

LIFE SCIENCE outside with Ms Gam getting into the weeds on trees. #coolscience #stemeducation

DICHOTOMOUS KEY middle school students in Ms. Gam’s class are learning about an important scientific tool to identify leaf specimens. #stemeducation #lovescience #outdooreducation #handsonlearning

WORKS IN PROGRESS High school art students chose a personal still life composition & color palette to express meaning with layering acrylic paint #creativity #art #loudounschoolforadvancedstudies

STRESS Nurses facilitating positive & negative stress coping strategies with some of our high school students.

CHEMISTRY conversation continues with Dr Sohl about Brønsted-Lowry acids and bases. #stemeducation #greatteachers #chemistryclass

EXPERIMENT to learn about the interaction of acids with rocks to figure out how sinkholes form. 😬#sinkholes #loudounschoolforadvancedstudies

GEOLOGY Real implications of increased carbon dioxide and acid rain with our very own geologist, Dr O’Brien, in high school chemistry. #loudounschoolforadvancedstudies #ashburnvirginia

FRENCH 2 with Madam Carraway. Students (in-person and virtual) are learning party/celebration vocabulary. They listened to someone describe plans for a future party and answered comprehension questions about it. In the first half of class, students listened to the dialogue multiple times and took notes, then compared their notes and their answers to the comprehension questions with a classmate during breakout sessions. They did a really great job! #loudounschoolforadvancedstudies #ashburnvirginia #virtuallearning2020

PE on this beautiful day! #loudounschoolforadvancedstudies #ashburnvirginia #ashburnmoms

[11/07/20]   https://www.instagram.com/tv/CHRDasLBjsD/?igshid=11yggv3w1mm4c

GUEST SPEAKER Singer, songwriter, story teller, activist Reggie Harris Zooms from Middleburg, NY with Jim Percoco’s “Reckoning with US History” class. They discussed the current social, political, and racial climate in the United States. #loudounschoolforadvancedstudies #ashburnvirginia

MIDYEAR TRANSFERS We welcome students who want to join during the academic year. Our plan for the 2020-2021 school year increases safety for our teachers and students. An online option is also available to provide seamless flexibility. Learn more at https://www.loudounschool.org/our-mission #ashburnvirginia #stemeducation #lovemath #ashburnmoms #greatteachers

PRESENTATIONS in pre-algebra. To review percents and decimals, students go on a $500 shopping spree and present their purchases including sales and discounts. #loudounschoolforadvancedstudies #lovemath

[11/04/20]   https://www.instagram.com/tv/CHLG_CXBu_2/?igshid=1r9mmjsy4qa0d

PHYSICAL COMPUTING focuses on the interaction of code with the outside world. It’s based on a course taught at NYU. David Romero introduces our students to basic electrical engineering and design of circuits that sense and interact with their environment. #nyutisch #physicalcomputing #loudounschoolforadvancedstudies #ashburnvirginia

COMMUNITY Service Club at Loudoun School For Advanced Studies (LSAS) organized a Food Drive Contest during the month of October for the Dulles South Food Pantry. The students, staff and LSAS community generously donated loads of non-perishable items. Winners of the contest to be announced next week! #ashburnvirginia #loudounschoolforadvancedstudies #ashburnmoms

HALLOWEEN the first costumes of the day!

DESIGN THINK PROCESS presentations creating products and solutions for young children as clients: Empathize, define, ideate, prototype and test.

LEARNING through doing! Creating games and making beautiful digital art means learning to code. #loudounschoolforadvancedstudies #ashburnvirginia

COMPUTER SCIENCE for our middle school students means teaching themselves to code with a little help from Dr Oliveau.

LUNCH Warm food & ice cream can cheer up the gloomiest day! 😊

FINALE Another great day at LSAS!

AFTER-SCHOOL Clubs keep the day going. Debate, art and sports are on today’s schedule.

LUNCH the food trucks are back! Making lunch time extra fun.

CLEANING between classes. Our students are committed to keeping each other safe.

OPTIONS for midyear transfers and admissions information for 2021-2022. Schedule a conversation to learn more at: https://www.loudounschool.org/open-house

GEOMETRY students are learning to construct parallel lines and how Eratosthenes used them to calculate a remarkably accurate circumference of the Earth. #loudounschoolforadvancedstudies #ashburnvirginia #ashburnmoms

PHYSICS Students were given the task of using a half-atwood machine to calculate the gravitational constant. After setting up their apparatus students figured out a way to linearize their data and derive a result from their graph.
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BALANCING equations during a solubility lab in Dr Sohl’s high school chemistry class. #loudounschoolforadvancedstudies #ashburnvirginia #ashburnmoms

PIANO lessons with Joe. A great way to breakup the school day! #loudounschoolforadvancedstudies #ashburnvirginia

WHY I WRITE: Today is The National Day on Writing. Our students are deep into their unit on writing personal narrative essays. Today they discussed techniques for opening a story and students experimented with new types of leads for their own essays. #whiiwrite #ashburnvirginia #loudounschoolforadvancedstudies

PROJECTS Our students explore fun facts with large and small numbers using scientific notation to share with the class. #loudounschoolforadvancedstudies #ashburnvirginia

PSAT Day high school students socially distanced throughout the building and ready to begin.

ENGINEERING student generated Arduino projects. #ashburnvirginia #loudounschoolforadvancedstudies