In Analog Adventures: Cameraless Image Making and Hands-On Darkroom, students built pinhole cameras, created cyanotype prints, and developed photograms in the darkroom. Students in Glass Art: Creating Art and Exploring Science of Amorphous Solids studied glass as a material, utilizing their learning hands-on during a field trip to the glassblowing studio UrbanGlass. In Aviation: How Flying Works and the Debates Shaping Its Future, students had the opportunity to visit Air Traffic Control at LaGuardia Airport, JetBlue headquarters in Queens, and the flight deck of the Intrepid, as well as practice on a flight simulator. In Kings and Queens: the Wonder of Brooklyn and Queens, students embarked on walking tours of the boroughs to explore each's diverse cultures. 

As students toured, read, cooked, built, designed, photographed, carved, gamed, danced, recorded, filmed, photographed, and more, they got to step away from their usual routines and immerse themselves in a week of learning outside the classroom. For this week, "school was life, and life was school," just as Helen Parkhurst called for in The Dalton Plan.