County Prep students enrolled in Ms. Torres’ Education Workplace Experience course visited Explore 2000 on Wednesday, May 24th to deliver student-created lesson plans on SPACE. Ms. Torres and her students worked diligently on these lessons in preparation for this “student teaching” experience. County Prep students received a warm welcome from the staff and students at Explore 2000. The day...
(Jersey City, NJ) Henrik Van Tassell, a first year student at Explore 2000 Middle School, has proven that his interest in technology equates to work that demonstrates his advanced knowledge, and skills in many areas of the 21 century learning environment. Explore 2000 has had the privilege of providing the students with a robotics program...
Ode to Winter Flounder By Yazan Baghdady FlounderYou lie flatOn the seafloorWaiting with your single eyeOn the right sideOf your flattened headBrown patterns runDown your flanksAn inquisitive shrimpLooks at the strange patch You gulp it downAs you have ended the lives of thousandsAnother shrimp is dangling in front of youIt shines with a strange lightYou...
My trip to Egypt by Yazan Baghdady We began our actual trip on Christmas, when we woke up in the Old Cataract hotel,. The hotel is located in Aswan, by the Nile. It has an amazing view of some ancient Egyptian ruins. The first thing we did after breakfast was to visit a...
On February 22, 2016 County Prep Science teacher, Tim O’Donnell and his five-year-old daughter Bridget were killed in a tragic car accident on the New Jersey Turnpike Hudson County Extension. Immediately following this event, there was a tremendous and very generous outpouring of donations from County Prep High School, High Tech High School and Explorer...
Explore 2000 prides itself on being New Jersey’s first S.T.E.A.M. vocational middle school, to which the students embody in their hands-on learning environment, which has produced some impressive projects. Explore 2000 delves into three thematic units per year, one in each respective trimester. In their first trimester for the 2016-2017 school year, “Oceans” were explored...
WowWee MiP Robot Review Mr. Sonny Dave, president of ExtremeKids LLC, provided Explore 2000 Middle School with the WowWee MiP Robot to enhance the learning experience of the students and introduce them to computer programming. The students were very excited to unbox their new learning tool which was presented in a...
Forty five Explore 2000 students were the recipients of the generosity of the Morris Rubell Holocaust Journey Foundation. On Monday, October 24, 2016, Explore 2000 participated in a life-changing experience, the Morris Rubell Holocaust Remembrance Journey. Students, staff and parent chaperones were treated to a trip to the Holocaust memorial Museum in Washington DC. The...
Dear Mr. Heyman, Thank you for sharing your experience with us on the trip. It was an enlightening story, and made me think more about not only the people who were killed but the hardships that ordinary people had to go through just because of their religion or race. The things that you told us...
November 14, 2016 Explore 2000’s South House went on a field experience to the American Museum of NaturalHistory. In the museum, students walked around gathering notes and information. I learned many things on this trip such as the various ecosystems, the layers of the ocean and the different organisms that live...