Intersession - Learning Has No Bounds

Each spring Bay School students and their teachers venture out of the classroom and deep into the exciting world that surrounds them during Intersession week. Five full days of experiential learning await as students choose from more than 20 different courses offering a broad range of hands-on learning opportunities throughout the Bay Area and beyond.
It’s a special time for students and teachers to share their passions together in small groups—whether it be filmmaking in the digital media lab, trekking through wilderness landscapes in Death Valley or along the Lost Coast,
exploring one of the Bay Area’s many ethnic neighborhoods, learning more about a favorite form of music or dance, building Rube Goldberg machines, breaking ground on a community garden, or building their culinary and
historical knowledge of bread and the ancient cultural rituals of tea.

Courses are proposed by teachers and students working together, thus the selection of offerings varies each year. The substantive course content is intentionally connected to the Bay School curriculum. It’s a time to work
collaboratively—a time for students and teachers alike to directly experience that learning truly has no bounds.

SAMPLE LIST OF RECENT INTERSESSION COURSE OFFERINGS
Voyage on a Tall Ship
Bay Space Program - Ikaros Space Balloon
Alchemy: The Science of Magic
Exploring Hip Hop
First Annual Gallery Crawl and Poetry Slam
The Lifetime of a Muron: Subatomic Particles
Desolation Wilderness Backcountry Skiing and Snow Camping
Audioengineering and Sound Design
The Sounds and People of San Francisco: Audio Storytelling
Figure Drawing
Alternative Energy
Cyanotype Photography
Bike the Bay
Experience Taiko (Japanese Drumming)
Wilderness First Aid
Project Runway – Fashion design, sewing, and producing a fashion show
Introduction to Meditation
Computer Game Design
Japan and the West
End of the Line – Investigating mass transit