Spring 2020

Spring at Sky Islands started off with a student-driven school-wide project to enhance our recycling and composting program. Students in the Health class spent time outdoors exercising and enjoying the cool early spring air (and having lots of fun), and students in the art classes created a gallery and art show of the school calendars, […]

Culinary Arts Class 2019-2020

Students in the Culinary Arts class amazed and impressed the entire school this year with incredible dishes for lunch four days a week! Drawing upon the produce and eggs gathered from the school’s farm, as well as weekly deliveries of locally-grown organic produce provided by Pivot Produce, the students created healthy, delicious dishes from scratch […]

US/AZ History Class Trip to Arizona History Museum

While preparing for their third quarter performance, students in the US/AZ History class toured the Arizona History Museum, where they saw actual artifacts from and read the stories of the people and events they had been learning about in class. During the third quarter, the focus was on the Era of Extraction and changing views […]

Gem Show Trip 2020

Students in the Earth Science class got to witness their studies of geologic time, geologic history, and geology come alive firsthand as they toured three different mineral and fossil shows in one day! First came the Tucson Convention Center, where the students viewed a wide assortment of gems, minerals, and fossils, as well as the […]

Aravaipa Canyon Trip 2019

Things changed up a bit this Fall from the usual Aravaipa trip, which normally features the 9th grade Field Studies class conducting ecological transects. This year, the focus of the trip was invasive species removal, and was open to volunteers of any grade level. In addition to having a ton of fun and getting to […]

G.A.L.S. Trip

This year, Sky Islands was honored to be selected to participate in the GALS (Girls on outdoor Adventures for Leadership and Science) program, which is designed to encourage more girls to go into STEM-related fields and to build their confidence, hosted by Dr. Elise Gornish of the School of Natural Resources and the Environment at […]

Fall Science Classes 2019

9th grade students in the Field Studies class partnered with representatives from Tank’s Green Stuff to study whether or not scorpions prefer wood chips compared to other mediums. The study involved constructing terrariums with various media to test their hypothesis, as well as an evening trip to Picacho Peak to work with company and park […]

US/AZ History Trip to San Xavier Co-op Farm

Students in US/AZ History this quarter have been learning about the history of agriculture in the Southwest, including the domestication of various crops by the Hohokam and O’Odham cultures, the loss of their traditional food systems as a result of colonization and forced assimilation, and the current movement to revitalize them. To bring this subject […]

US/AZ History Class Mission Trip

Students in the US/AZ History class have been learning about the history of Southern Arizona this quarter through the broad theme of ‘food’, including the influx of Old World crops to the indigenous people via the Spanish mission system. The class spent the day visiting two missions in the area- Tumacacori and San Xavier del […]

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