I want to incorporate more 3D construction into my classroom. By creating objects beyond the computer screen, students are automatically more engaged. In my innovation grant, I asked for a tool that will allow students this cool opportunity.

The CreoPop 3D pens will allow students to create three dimensional models. Using the 3 Doodler in…Read More

Trigonometric Function: What’s Your Function???
My project-based unit places the student in a role as a mathematician. As a mathematician each PreCalculus student is looking for a scheme to represent trigonometric functions in a musical way. Students will use music to help them understand the mathematics of trigonometric functions. Each s…Read More

Students love to come to the computer lab, but many times they think computers are only to play games. Through my innovation grant, “Engaging Students Through Creative Technology”, I plan to help my students delve into a deeper understanding of technology and its many uses. In a Project Based Learning atmosphere students will interact with eac…Read More

There’s an App for That!

As a first year teacher coming home to the mountains to teach in an area where I grew up, was a privilege. I hadn’t been inside of an Eastern Kentucky elementary school, since I had been enrolled myself. Things had definitely changed. Going from every piece of technology I could imagine at my fingertips, to a classroom w…Read More

Science for OUR Generation!

“Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for the “Next Generation”…..but the poor can plan ahead for only a few weeks or days”.

The projects I need funding for, as listed in the projected budget detail, were discovered as a result of work I did this summer on Next Generatio…Read More