After living in Eastern Kentucky for 44 years and being an English teacher for 21 of those years, I have developed an intense drive for improving the levels literacy and communication within our region. Within this passion, I have seen that the people of Appalachia have some incredible stories—of survival, defeat, victory, and struggle—that des…Read More

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