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  • This Delaware school embraced outdoor education before COVID-19. Can others follow suit?

    October 2, 2020

    In Delaware, the emergence of outdoor education programs is fairly recent. Schools might have nature trails or community gardens for students to learn from, but don’t dedicate most of the day to using those spaces, said Katie Pollock, a master teacher …

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  • Newark private schools find creative ways to reopen this fall

    August 31, 2020

    As the Christina School District plans for online learning through at least mid-October, several local private schools are finding creative ways to bring at least some students back into classrooms. The University of Delaware Lab School, an early learn …

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  • Students, staff and faculty in UD’s College of Education and Human Development helped organize ACES Day, which stands for All Children Exercise Simultaneously

    Get Moving

    June 16, 2020

    UD interns host virtual children’s exercise party Did you know there is an international event to help kids get their wiggles out? Every year on the first Wednesday of May, millions of children across the world participate in Project ACES, which stands …

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  • May 11: COVID-19 Update

    May 11: COVID-19 Update

    May 11, 2020

    Dear Families, We hope this message finds you and your family healthy and well. Due to continued State of Delaware and University of Delaware restrictions related to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Lab School will remain closed for the remainder of the 2019 …

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  • Teachers and students of UD’s Lab School hold class using the videoconferencing app Zoom

    UD Lab School Shifts to Virtual Learning

    May 1, 2020

    Serving children ages six months to six years, the Lab School helps UD students learn to teach Young children thrive off routine. The daily rhythms of group time and singalongs may seem like child’s play, but activities like these, conducted in classro …

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  • March 26: COVID-19 Update

    March 26: COVID-19 Update

    March 26, 2020

    Dear Lab School Families, I hope that you and your families are staying well and weathering the storm brought about by the COVID-19 situation. On March 24, UD President Assanis announced that faculty and staff of the University of Delaware would be wor …

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  • Educator Katie Pollock takes her class outside to experience the textures and smells of plants growing at one of the edible forest garden sites.

    Edible Forest Garden

    June 24, 2019

    UD students learn and help staff teach children where food comes from On an overcast Saturday morning, staff and volunteers gathered at the Early Learning Center and Laboratory Preschool, both located on the University of Delaware’s Children’s Campus. …

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  • A child works on a birdhouse as part of a program in which College of Education and Human Development students and faculty collaborate with College of Engineering students and faculty to help children learn about birds.

    Teaching with Bird Houses

    May 14, 2019

    Early childhood education and engineering majors collaborate to build bird nesting boxes On a chilly morning recently at the University of Delaware’s Children’s Campus, a few dozen children — guided by undergraduates — took hold of screwdrivers to buil …

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  • Toys that have been designed by Engineering students get a trial run with the children at the College School who play and give opinions on the best toys under the direction of Jennifer Gallo-Fox

    Engineering for Fun

    September 20, 2018

    Students design and build toys, pitch to Melissa and Doug representatives Engineering students at the University of Delaware recently pitched their own inventions to representatives from a major toy company. A trio of professionals from Melissa and Dou …

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  • AstraZeneca’s Ruud Dobber (left) extracts DNA from strawberries with a family at the Delaware Biotechnology Institute’s Family STEAM Night.

    Delaware Biotechnology Institute Family Night Promotes Science Education

    June 29, 2018

    UD’s College School and Lab School join drugmaker AstraZeneca at the event The Delaware Biotechnology Institute (DBI), in partnership with AstraZeneca and the University of Delaware’s College School and Lab School, hosted a Family STEAM (science, techn …

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