The Benjamin Franklin Health & Science Academy

PS/IS 157 is a 3K-8th grade public, magnet school in Brooklyn’s District 14. “Be your best self. Be healthy. Make the world better.”

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After entire fall @Magnet157 of learning to feed, clean, and nurture our hens our garden club is harvesting their first eggs by the basketful. Students and staff are so excited! #urbangarden @GrowNYC @NYCGreenThumb @District14Supt @NYCSD14 @NYCSchools

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Makerspace Club involved a lot of measurement today. Our student used a ruler and digital calipers to create an accurate drawing of a broken part of his project. He is going to see if he can fabricate a new one! @NYCSchools @NYCPSD14 @Makerspaces_com @council_14

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Great job Ms. Blackman & Ms. Calixto. Their sign language interest club is quickly turning our students bilingual or trilingual! @NYCSD14 @NYCSchools @District14Supt #signlanguage #LanguageLearning #community

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Every Friday morning is club day @Magnet157. Gardening, MakerSpace, Jewelry Making, Sign Language, Latin Dance, Cooking, Scrapbooking, Spin, Studio Art, Meditation, Lego Robotics, Coding and Latin dance to name a few! @NYCSD14 @NYCSchools #stem #steam #wellness #community

[Jason Fuller @MrFullerDOE]

Today in our garden club @Magnet157 one of our students said “this smell reminds me of my home country”. Love this time every Friday. We are preparing herbs with hopes of having a farmers market soon, may have sampled a cucumber too 😜. @NYCSD14 @District14Supt @GrowNYC #garden

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Ms. Peterson and some our students spend their breakfast together tinkering in MakerSpace. Today between 7:30 and 8:00am he assembled a Microbit robot, and used the training guide to program it with a basic, block-based steering program. #STEMeducation @NYCSD14

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Today was “Makerspace Maintenance Day” for the fourth grade. We decided to make the shelving a little safer. Every partnership made their own decisions, choosing colors and methods of attachment. @NYCSD14 @District14Supt #makerspace #STEMeducation

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Over a year of planning and anticipation was totally worth how excited students are learning to care for and nurture our chickens. Here they are getting to know “Cardi Beak”. @NYCSchools @NYCGreenThumb @GrowNYC @District14Supt @Magnet157 @NYCSD14 #urbangardens #learninggarden

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Welcomed the newest members of our school community and #urbangarden classrooms. Name contest coming soon! @Magnet157 #outdoorlearning #gardenteaching @GrowNYC @NYCSD14

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Our edible and native garden is looking great for the start of school. What an exciting place for scholars to learn! @NYCSchools @kourtneyboyd @MrFullerDOE @NatureBasedSolu @GrowNYC @ESYNYC @NYCSD14 @NYCPSD14

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The strawberries are starting to bloom in our garden. 🍓😋

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Congratulations to 8th grader, Yvette Tavares, who proudly and confidently represented our school at this year’s SoapboxNYC. Her original piece on Student Voice brought down the house! @ Ps 157 Benjamin Franklin https://t.co/tffYGGg1sJ

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Building a community of exploration and a love of learning in our 3k classroom this week! @NYCDOED14 @NYCSchools #lifelonglearning #STEMeducation

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Very proud of our 5th graders building a 3bin compost system and piloting a school wide organics collection program. This compost will support or edible and native gardens! #organicgardening #Sustainability @ESYNYC @NYCGreenThumb @NYCDOED14 @alixfano

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What a beautiful day for us to open our new picnic/storytelling area in our already gorgeous and thriving native garden. 3K students were so excited to sit on the grass in the sun for story time. @NYCDOED14 @NYCSchools @NYCGreenThumb @NatureBasedNY

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3K enjoying our new picnic reading area and elementary volunteers figuring out the design of our soon to be spiral herb garden… @NYCGreenThumb @ESYNYC @NYCDOED14 @NYCSchools #gardening #pbl

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3K and Ms. Flynn celebrating raising caterpillars to butterflies today by releasing them into our native habitats. #butterfly #gardening #Science @NYCDOED14 @NYCGreenThumb