For the 2023-24 academic year Thornton-Donovan School, located in the Beechmont and overlooking the lake of the same name. is focusing on Blue Gold. Blue Gold is the school”™s academic theme. While the world continues to fret over barrels of oil, the Blue Gold Campaign will embrace the new oil ”“ Blue Gold ”“ “water” and fret over buckets not barrels.
Incorporated within its classical college prep curriculum are over 20 courses just about water. T-D is also teaching six world languages (Spanish, French, Latin, Greek, Russian, Japanese) as well as teaching to the highest levels in English, math, science, social studies, art, architecture, music, the humanities, and AL, all at the same time.
T-D”™s half century travel-study program continues in 2024. Last year T-D students and families made Isreal and Jordan their travel-study destinations. The Blue Gold effort beginning in February ”™24 will be to Panama. Later in the spring T-D will travel to Vegas, the Hoover Damn, Lake Mead, Lake Tahoe and the Colorado River.
T-D will focus on water at each of the destinations. Some of T-D”™s Blue Gold courses are listed below for the reader:
Canals and Aqueducts
Droughts and Floods
Humans and Climate
The Law of the Sea
Mars ”“ Searching for water and life
Etymology ”“ water words
Engineering Water
Water in the Christian, Jewish, and Muslim World
Water Desalination
Marine Biology
Aqua Parks
Water as a Weapon
Water Diplomacy
Water, Water Everywhere but ”¦
Lifeguarding Water
The Many Faces of Water
Water in Mythology
Water and Anatomy
Water Painting
Just add water ”“ Cooking
Water Sprouts (Cooking)
Just add water ”“ watercolor painting
T-D opens year 123 on September 7th. Good Tidings await everyone from grades K ”“ 12. Thornton-Donovan School
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www.td.edu. 914 632 8836 New Rochelle
