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Science teacher Rick Peck gives his students a sheet of aluminum foil to create a map of rivers with their watersheds. From left, Meera Chauhan, 12; Janera Martinez, 12; Rick Peck; Aly Kamins, 12; and Jillian Kazmierczak, 12.

At Seneca Ridge Middle School, Edison Rolle, 11 (left), and Taaj Davis, 12, test their foil watershed map with water in Rick Peck's science class.

Seneca Ridge Middle School science teacher Rick Peck calls on a student in his class.

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The Cosmos, Cut to Size

Loudoun Teacher Would Use County To Map the Heavens

Friday, May 22, 2009

If Rick Peck gets his way, the orbits of the planets would sweep around an arch 7 1/2 feet tall at Dominion High School in Sterling. A marble-size Pluto would lie two dozen miles away in Round Hill. Read story and 19 comments »

The Power Is in Their Hands

Project Teaches 6th-Graders They Can Help the Planet

Thursday, May 7, 2009

Most middle school students who fiddled with the school's electrical wires and turned off the hall and bathroom lights would probably wind up in the principal's office. Read story and 7 comments »

County's Early Language Program Pays Off

Enrollment, Fluency Up in Middle School

Thursday, Oct. 2, 2008

A spiky rubber porcupine flies through the air, passed between Spanish teacher Elizabeth Gueits and her seventh-graders as they go back and forth with questions and answers in Spanish. One student tiene hambre — is hungry; another está cansado — is tired. Read story and 17 comments »

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