Faced with increasingly busy schedules, 12- to 14-year-olds experience a different adolescence than any generation before. Students from Bill Roberts School talk about their busy lives.
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Are we so different? 7th- and 8th-Graders Say No
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Students from Odyssey School of Denver share their thoughts about race after visiting the Colorado’s History Center’s exhibit, RACE: are we so different?
Sixth-graders Discuss Their Digital Lives
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Eleven- and 12-year-olds are among the bubble of kids who have grown up in a digital world. Sixth-graders from Denver Discovery break down their digital lives for the older readers.
Imagining A World Without Adults
![Westerly Creek Fifth-graders](https://frontporchne.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Kids-473B9342.jpg)
Fried Twinkies for dinner, only wearing underwear for the day and adopting an octopus—read what else kids say they’d do if adults no longer existed.
First Graders Invent Laws
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Unbeknownst to many, unusual laws exist everywhere. This month first graders invented their own laws.
Fourth Graders Talk Money
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Talking about money may be awkward for some people—not these fourth-graders. They want lots of money to buy things like “teeth you don’t have to brush.”
Fourth Graders Invent Holidays
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March 26 is Make Your Own Holiday Day, so this month fourth graders at Swigert Elementary invented their own.
From the Minds of Third Graders: What is a “Hero” in Today’s World?
![Westerly Creek Elementary students](https://frontporchne.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/kids-473B1820.jpg)
Celebrities or athletes, parents or siblings, brave citizens—who do we define as heroes? Has the word preserved its intended meaning? Third graders share their thoughts.
Bill Roberts Fifth-Graders Explain Homelessness
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This month fifth graders from Bill Roberts K-8 School explain homelessness, how to help, and what the government isn’t doing.