Students in Lexi Sheets' class at Southern Middle have been using the "Forensic Math" problem set developed by Fayette County's IMMEX team for the UCLA website.  Using forensic based mathematics, students were asked to solve a murder mystery. The problem set begins as the local fire department is notified of a barn fire. Using algebra and measurement embedded in forensic science, students identified the murder victim, and after interviewing suspects, identified the murderer. 

Here are comments from the students about this type of classroom activity.

• “I think it is neat we get to solve crimes by ourselves.” Jared
• “I like it and think it’s cool to try and figure out who did the crime.” Leah
• “IMMEX is a good way to think about science.” Hillary
• “I think it is good because it makes us think logically.” Ben
• “I think it’s a good way to learn how to solve crimes and is a good way to keep your mind thinking.” Jordan

For more information on IMMEX, visit the IMMEX website.

Submitted by Kim Overstreet

 

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Students in Mrs. Brakebill's class at Tates Creek Elementary use WiggleWorks Plus software to support phonemic awareness and phonics instruction, and to increase fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension.   Mrs. Brakebill organizes her literacy time around the 4-block method. Her students often use WiggleWorks during the Writers Workshop portion of their day. Mrs. Brakebill introduced this skill by modeling a class composition and then allowed students to compose and illustrate their own stories. WiggleWorks will read the piece back to the student, allowing the student to hear the piece and edit if necessary. 

The Magnet Board portion of the software has been a good place to work on word wall words and phonics instruction through the manipulation of words.
 

For more information on WiggleWorks, visit http://teacher.scholastic.com/products/wiggleworks/

Students at LTMS are using PowerPoint and TimeLiner to help them learn their foreign language vocabulary words.  See a sample of two students' work below.

Click on this slide about January to see a brief French PowerPoint.

TimeLiner 5.1 allows the user to create a vertical timeline.  Here is an example from a Latin class.

The 5th grade students at SCAPA Bluegrass recently researched and wrote about different Social Studies topics. They created a webpage using Project Poster for the topic they researched in order to share the information they learned. Please click on the appropriate link below to see some of the web sites developed showing what our students learned.

Contact Cammy Baxter for more information on these web sites.

Students in Mr. Kelly Taylor's 6th grade Science classes at Tates Creek Middle School recently completed PowerPoint presentations as a part of their class work.  Here are just a few.  Check out the rest of the presentations at http://www.tcms.fcps.net/Features/taylor_projects.htm