Feasibility Study of Micro-algae Biodiesel from Surface Mine Ponds

Often, science classroom experiences lack relevance to students. Student surveys have often indicated that this lack of valid material can result in lower achievement. Students may find laboratory experiments boring because they aren’t really experiments but repeated exercises t…Read More

The Game of Science

Student engagement has long been a problem of practice, especially in science. We have considered the fact that this is a major contributing factor in some of our test scores. We constantly observe the student that doesn’t feel they quite “get” science and our proposal would be to develop a fun, science-based, card game…Read More

ENGAGE YOUR BRAIN BY DOODLING IN CLASS
An integral part of my Math classroom has always been the “Math Journal”. Research shows that students learn and retain information longer when they write their notes by hand. In order to prepare students for the next level of mathematical learning, I need to ensure that they are retaining the information tha…Read More

Look around! What’s in your hand? What’s in your bag? What’s in your pocket? Technology is all around us, consuming our daily lives with email, social media, games, and news of what’s going on around the world. We literally have the whole world in our hands, with the push of some buttons. Now think about the last time, you as an educator, got to…Read More

Rebecca Potter
Letcher County Central High School

This year I am again working with Dr. Michael Melton to continue to document the people of our area. Last year’s documentary turned out better than we thought with our lack of experience. This year we have a little more experience under our belts and hope to involve more and more students. We…Read More