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  • Eagle Creek Academy
  • Our Team
    • Founder's Message
    • Teachers
    • Administrators
  • Summer 2021
    • Summer Camp Policies & Rates
    • Preschool, Young Fives and Kinder Summer Camp
    • Grades 1, 2, 3 Summer Camp
    • Summer Tutoring
  • Preschool & Young Fives
    • Tuition Etc
    • Our Approach
    • Curriculum
    • Photos
  • Kinder to 5th Grade
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    • Our Approach
    • Curriculum
    • STEAM
    • Distance Learning
    • High Test Scores
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Eagle Creek Academy
​Grades 3 - 5 Snapshots

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Small groups lead to deeper learning.

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Grade 5: Mock Trial
After reading The Westing Game, the students worked in small groups to adlib and then present mock trials incorporating the novel’s chain of events. 
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​Grade 3: Team Challenges
While working with 5 plastic cups, 5 rubber bands and 5 pieces of string, the children practiced solving challenges as a team.
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​Grade 5: Cooking
Each small group
chose an apple recipe and collected equipment and ingredients. Then, they created & shared their delicious treats.​
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Grade 4: Plant Life
Each group took apart various flowers and categorized the parts. This led to an investigation into how real scientists classify plants.
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​Grade 5: Capturing Gas
​After finishing 
an experiment that emitted CO2 gas, one group wanted to capture the CO2 gas. They worked together to devise a new experiment to do that.
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Grades 5: Energy
After watching objects to see why one continues moving while the other stops, each pair devised a theory of motion which we compared to the standard theory.

Active learning is fun!

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After reading the book Miss Alaineus: A Vocabulary Disaster, these children dressed as ​interesting words such as "luminous" and "stealthy" and ​paraded from room to room so they could teach the words to other children.
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After studying the art and culture of Japanese Durama dolls, our 4th and 5th graders created their own dolls and set personal goals to align with their finished creations.
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While reading about the Loch Ness monster, we designed rafts to carry tourists across a lake. After conferences with other teams, each team adopted new designs and rebuilt. This led to interesting deliberations and new calculations.

Kids like to discover scientific theories ​​before reading about them.

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The third graders discovered that the electric charge on an object can bend water, ​pick up pepper and roll a can. This led to a more in-depth lesson about static electricity.
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After melting several substances, these fifth grade students decided the melting point of a substance is the temperature at which it begins to change from solid to liquid. ​They were right!

Watch these videos to see why kids love hands-on activities!

   Put your gloves on for this!
After researching the types of government and how governments impact the way we live, the third graders designed a detailed government of an imaginary country.
"Today we were challenged to see how many square units we could find inside other shapes. I never knew that square units were in triangles and other shapes, so it was really interesting." Kate, grade 3
Our fourth graders worked in teams to create products that solve everyday problems. They created their products from household materials, built prototypes & presented their business plans to a panel of “sharks.”

When children take action, ​​they understand & remember.

The fourth graders dissected owl pellets to make inferences about their ecosystem and diet. They used a chart to sort and identify the different bones. They were very excited to discover a rat skull in one of the pellets!
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EAGLE CREEK ACADEMY
3739 Kern Road
Oakland Charter Township, MI 48363
​Office: 248.475.9999
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