In collaboration with significant financial support from our school system, funding provides additional essentials to bring the foreign language department roaring into the 21st century with a portable language lab for use in five rooms. Other departments accessing those rooms are able to use the technology as well.
Scientific Investigation of Vanishing Trout in the Big Mary and Saint Mary Rivers
2 12 2012
In collaboration with our school division, Boxerwood, and several other outside agencies, funding creates an opportunity for in-depth study of local geography, geology, chemistry, physics, and biology as students test water pH and determine how human beings significantly impact the environment. Study includes both classroom laboratory investigation, as well as a two-day outdoor lab at the Nature Camp in Vesuvius
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Categories : Maury River Middle School, Science
Heart Rate Monitors
8 11 2012Funding provides 40 heart rate monitors so that all students can learn how to safely tailor their personal exercise practices regardless of their physical fitness level or ability with the potential of leading students toward life-long health awareness and benefits.
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Categories : Maury River Middle School, Personal Growth/Development
Whoo’s Here? Scientific Field Research
8 11 2012In collaboration with Boxerwood Nature Center, funds gave third grade students the opportunity through field and classroom studies to investigate owls and habitats and other living things within the school yard. All disciplines are involved with activities also including students in grades four and five.
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Categories : Fairfield Elementary, Science
One School, One Book
10 10 2012Every student, grades pre-K-5, receives a copy of the novel The World According to Humphrey by Betty G. Birney to take home. Every night parents are encouraged to listen to their children read the assigned number of pages or read to them. Follow-up at school throughout the month generates enthusiasm for reading, and a book talk mid-way through the book and a family night featuring art, discussion, and prizes is the culmination of this community-wide reading program.
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Categories : Fairfield Elementary, Language Arts
Heart Rate Monitors
25 09 2012Funding provides 40 heart rate monitors so that all students can learn how to safely tailor their personal exercise practices regardless of their physical fitness level or ability with the potential of leading students toward life-long health
awareness and benefits.
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Categories : Maury River Middle School, Personal Growth/Development
iPads for Physics and Calculus
25 09 2012This funding allows the teacher to create a classroom environment that incorporates technology the way students expect it to work: fast, flexible, and portable. Students can video labs and experiments; can access sites like
YouTube, Wolfram Alpha, and other instructional sites; can view 82 teacher-created
tutorial videos for problem-solving and AP exam review; and can use the free app “Video
Physics”, as well as other excellent physics and calculus apps.
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Categories : Math/Science/Technology, Rockbridge County High School
