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INTEGRATED LEARNING

Discover the difference that Leadways School offers through our Integrated Learning lessons. Our immersive education combines both in-class and out-of-class experiences, empowering students to tackle real-world issues. From addressing oil spills in the ocean to designing accessible play structures and creating compostable utensils, we inspire our students to find innovative solutions for a sustainable future. Join us in shaping the next generation of problem solvers!

Happy Children

Designing playgrounds for

ALL children

  • Doing surveys and gathering data on playgrounds and children with disabilities

  • Study trips to inclusive playgrounds in the neighborhood

  • Learning design thinking concepts

  • Interviewing children with physical challenges

  • Iterative process - practice resilience and creativity

Designing a trash can that

does intelligent sorting

  • Investigate the situation and come up with a problem statement

  • Learn Arduino and coding

  • Machine learning coursework

  • CAD and mechanical engineering

  • Working in a team to solve a complex engineering problem and creating social impact

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Compostable utensils in supermarkets

  • Market analysis on disposable utensils

  • Sending out surveys in the neighbourhood and in supermarkets

  • Studying the economics of compostable utensils vs plastic utensils

  • Coming up with convincing arguments for compostable utensils

  • Petition local politicians for supermarkets to sell compostable utensils and learn communication and presentation skills

Profit and Loss Experiment

  • Design hand crafted retail items for sale

  • Develop a merchant system electronically to accept payments

  • Calculate material cost, expenses and labor to evaluate profit and loss

  • Report on their experience and what they would do on their next business

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