A few months ago, they did not speak one word of Spanish, but now, Briarcliff Middle School sixth graders in Johanna Foster’s class know the Spanish words for clothing articles, colors, patterns, prices and much more!

To showcase their knowledge, they put together wardrobes and created dazzling fashion shows in class, during which they described what they were wearing and shared information about their outfits.

One of the best ways to learn something is by teaching others.

Briarcliff Middle School sixth graders in Julie Gallagher’s science class recently discovered that, as they shared their learnings about agents of erosion and deposition with the rest of the class.

It’s not every day that seventh graders at Briarcliff Middle School use pom-poms, Model Magic clay, pipe cleaners and beads in science class.

Students in Jessica Loprieno’s enrichment class created colorful models of neurons with arts and crafts supplies and then used them to make stop motion animation videos to show how an electrical impulse travels.

3D Printers have taken the world by storm and Briarcliff Middle School has recently jumped on the bandwagon and now has three brand-new 3D printers for students to use.

Math can be fun. Especially if you are in Ashlee Devlin’s class at Briarcliff Middle School.

Students recently created scale drawings of candy wrappers, cartoon characters and comic strips, as a culmination of their unit on scale.

In the 17^th century, when he was only 23 years old, Sir Isaac Newton held a prism of glass in the path of a beam of sunlight and observed that the light reflected a spectrum of the colors of the rainbow. Using prisms and mirrors, he discovered that white sunlight isn’t white, but rather a combination of all the individual colors and thus came up with the 12-color wheel.

Briarcliff Middle School sixth graders learned about the color wheel in art class with Jessica Dubin, as they were preparing to create artwork with their names.