Student Work Gallery

We created this page to feature student projects during remote learning – 4th quarter, Spring 2020. 

TA Students: Send photos of your awesome work created at home to Patty McIlvaine, so that we can feature your creativity, ingenuity, innovation, hard work, and academic learning. Might be a project or assignment for a class – could also be something you are doing as part of a personal hobby or family pursuit during our national stay-at-home spring.

Foods Around the World

Mrs. Gernhard’s students in “Foods Around the World” make German shnecken, empanadas, italian bread, tortillas, churros, and crepes from their home kitchens.

Design Tech – Simple Machines

Design Tech students learned about the six simple machines: the inclined plane, lever, wedge, wheel and axle, pulley, and screw. Then they created their own!

Design Tech – Jewelry Making

Students in middle school design technology completed their jewelry making unit from home using materials they had on hand.

Expressive Art and Printmaking – A Tree as a Metaphor

In Expressive Art and Printmaking, students were asked to create a tree as a metaphor for their life. Each tree was accompanied by narrative text.

English 8 – Independent Novel Project

  • Saylor B.
    Novel: When the Sea Turned to Silver
    Author: Grace Lin
    Theme: The way to immortality is through story-telling
  • Asa K.
    Novel: Grapes of Wrath
    Author: John Steinbeck
    Theme: Misfortune
  • Eli D.
    Novel: Ender’s Shadow
    Author: Orson Scott Card
    Theme: Hiding in order to survive
  • Leo D.
    Novel: Loveboat, Taipei
    Author:Abigail Hing Wen
    Theme: Freedom
  • Annie H.
    Novel: Dear Evan Hansen
    Author: Val Emmich
    Theme: Loneliness
English 8 independent novel assignment. Students were asked to represent the theme of their reading through the medium of their choice – artwork, poetry, journalistic writing, etc.

English – Journals

Student Journal: Elle Dixon ’20

Posted: April 9, 2020

I still haven’t processed the fact the I will never have another day at TA, the place where I grew to be who I am today. It hurts my heart to know that that Tuesday was it. That my junior track season would be my last track season. My heart hurts to know that I […]

Reflecting on the Thetford Outdoor Program

Posted: May 26, 2020

by Ethan Marshia It seems like it was just yesterday that we all ventured out on our first journey together. Entering the portal to a seemingly otherworldly dimension. I was just a mere fledgling. This class has given me everything I could have imagined and more. It has allowed me to see the forest through […]

Design Tech – Toy Cars

Design Tech students were tasked with designing toy cars. The car had to be self-propelled for at least 10 feet with a payload of at least 12 oz. Students used various parts from recycled plastic and cardboard to whatever they could find.

Environmental Studies – Andy Goldsworthy-Inspired Art

Biology – #cellphies

Students in Mr. Engler’s biology class have been learning about the cell cycle and cell reproduction. They were asked to create instagram posts to document their nuclear journey through this process.

Math – Fractals

Geometry students combined art and geometry to make these fractals.
More fractals from Algebra I.

Environmental Studies – Maple Sugaring

Students in TA’s Environmental Studies and Outdoor Education class made this video to share their learning about the art and science of maple sugaring.