Hello Folks! I am very excited about presenting at the Summit in April! This year I wrote a second grant which allowed me to purchase 6 Spheros for my classroom. I was not sure what I would do with them, but working with my science team mate, Joseph Larrimore, I did a unit that incorporated the use of the Spheros and coding on tablets!!!! This…Read More

We are getting ready to begin our unit of study using our materials from the grant. It is late in happening this year, due to all the days of school missed due to snow, ice, flooding, flu, etc. However, the day is coming quickly (thank goodness) that we will begin…dissecting! This is one of the best things that I have been able to offer my…Read More

The 2019 Fire Summit is quickly approaching . I am once again looking forward to a time when I get to talk with other educators and share ideas and mostly GAIN ideas to bring back to my classroom. I always bring severeal students with me and that is really one of the best parts of my day. I try to choose students who will do a great job, but…Read More

Looking forward to another Great Year using the grant money from ARI. My project has been one of the best things that I have/do in my teaching career. We dissect pigs! My students love the hands on experience and learning about the science behind the dissection. They are able to relate the structures and their functions to their own bodies and…Read More

Another Truly Successful year using ARI funding!!!! This was the second year that I wrote a grant for purchasing fetal pigs for my 7th grade students! I first received a grant to purchase pigs last year. My students last year had really surprised me with their enthusiasm for the learning through this magnificent venture. I had girls that I…Read More

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Hoping to make doctors, nurses, pharmacists, etc. out of students who had no idea that they had such an interest!!! Looking toward the future and successful lives of my students. Hoping my kids stay here in the hills and build mountains out of mole hills! Exciting times when you watch a love of learning be exposed and the intrigue that is…Read More

Getting excited about the upcoming Fire Summit at the Expo in Pikeville, Ky on April 11, 2018!

“Do We Get To….?”
Students have difficulty recognizing cause and effect relationships among themselves and choices they make. Students do not necessarily see the effect of choices they make on their bodies and their future. Thus their choices many times can and do end up effecting their quality of life—both at the present and in the future.…Read More

K’Nex

K’Nex Work

carole bentley posted an update 55 minutes ago
I am so very thankful to have received funding for the project for my classroom–“How Far Can You Go?” The money received was used to purchase multiple K’Nex kits for the classroom. With the amount of money I received, I was able to have students work in groups of 2, which was wonderful. Every teacher…Read More

I am so very thankful to have received funding for the project for my classroom–“How Far Can You Go?” The money received was used to purchase multiple K’Nex kits for the classroom. With the amount of money I received, I was able to have students work in groups of 2, which was wonderful. Every teacher has had students work in groups and knows…Read More

From the moment the big red boxes came off the shelves, my students were “steaming” with excitement for what they were about to get started doing. The students had been studying about a variety of physics related topics–speed, velocity, acceleration, etc. They had been using mathematical formulas to solve for unknown values for the above…Read More