Brody After Hours

21st CCLC Students at Brody After Hours (they call it BAH for short) are not playing around. Well... they're kind of playing around. Ok... they are playing around, but they're learning a ton while they do it!


Cooking Club is one of the most popular after school groups for students at Brody, and the beautiful kitchens make it easy for them to experiment. From mini-pizzas to more exotic fruits and vegetable creations, this innovating young group is all about appreciating their food and how it's made.

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To some young people, middle school itself can seem a dystopia... anyone who's been a teenager can most certainly attest to that! The ever-popular Dystopian Novels Club gives students a chance to read classic works of fiction and discuss their feelings on anything from politics to social reform to the questions of fairness and equality. Some of the favorites? The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins; Gone, by Michael Grant; and Legend, by Marie Lu.

And on this particularly beautiful fall day, another group gets the blood pumping with some physical literacy activities on the lawn. Physical Literacy has become a large part of 21st CCLC programming in Des Moines, as we learn how important physical health is to brain development and function. Students at Brody enjoy a variety of physical literacy programming, and the creative teachers make use of all resources and space (even the hallways!) available to them.

Additionally, STEM programs such as Model Building, Science, Photography and iPad Inquiry Clubs round out the 21st CCLC after school experience at Brody.  Where else can boys and girls build rockets that fly a hundred feet in the air, configure a catapult with a spork, and create a thrilling-marble-rollin'-roller-coaster the length of the classroom? Why after-school programs of course!






21st CCLC at Brody Middle School : what a cool place to play... um... learn!

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