Mountain Academy Students Learn About Community Through Local Nonprofits
Our friends at the Community Foundation of Teton Valley are once again putting on the Tin Cup Challenge in Teton Valley. “One of the most innovative charitable fundraisers in the nation, the Tin Cup Challenge is also one of the most successful. …
Student Guest Blog “I am a Rural Student”
The Unique Rural Student Experiences of Mountain Academy Students
Jackson, Wyoming is home to one of the two campuses of Mountain Academy. Two of our students reported on local celebrity grizzly bear 399 and her cubs as they navigated Teton Valley and our very own campus this last school year. …
Student Guest Blog “CRISPR: The Biotechnology Which Took The World by Storm”
How might we be more aware of how genetics and genetic engineering affect our lives?
In the spring of 2022, 8th grade science students at Mountain Academy of Teton Science Schools studied genetics and genetic engineering. …
Place Network Dispatch: Forest Rehabilitation Student Project
Forest Rehabilitation and Education Lead
by Fairview Elementary 5th Graders
Columbia, Missouri is home to one of the schools in the Place Network: Fairview Elementary. The fifth graders have been working to improve the environment around their school for years, …
Announcing Mountain Academy Structural Changes and Key Priorities
On March 25, CEO and Mountain Academy Head of School, Shawn Kelly, announced structural changes and announced key new hires at Mountain Academy. Below is his announcement to Mountain Academy faculty, staff, families and friends. …
The Studio is a Laboratory for Thinking: Flowers In Bloom
Spring in the Tetons begins with mud! Come join us for our fifth annual In Mud Workshop, April 23rd, 2022. We are looking forward to exploring the dirt together back in person! Recommended for Early Childhood Educators: preschool through lower elementary school. …
Remembering E.O. Wilson, “the father of biodiversity”
Teton Science Schools would like to acknowledge the passing of preeminent scientist, naturalist, author and teacher, Edward O. Wilson, Ph.D. He is known as “the father of biodiversity”. E.O. Wilson died on December 26, 2021 in Burlington, …
Rebuilding Field Education at TSS for 2022
Teton Science Schools Field Education is excited to be in the midst of rebuilding. We’re proud of how we’ve weathered the pandemic, with small-scale, non-residential program offerings mostly focused on the local Jackson community, and at the same time, …
Build your own LEGO Murie Ranch: A step by step guide with the National Park Service LEGO Vignette Team
Teton Science Schools has partnered with National Park Service LEGO Vignettes to create a vignette of the Murie Ranch front porch. The National Park Service LEGO Vignettes is a group of LEGO lovers who create National Park scenes out of LEGO. …
Where is the snow?
I often think about how a shallow or absent snowpack affects the animals of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. This year it has been an unusually warm November and December, so far. There have been several snowstorms, …
