This was taken on the first day I was at Mountain Ridge Middle school. MRMS is where I worked for the first week of externship. The art teacher at MRMS, Shelly, had students take chairs that were going to be thrown away, and re-purpose them. This was from the night of the symposium. The students were exhibiting their iLab projects. One team of teachers did a STEM project about ecology. Students broke off into groups and designed different environments. At Mountain Vista High School, there are plans to turn this room and an adjacent one into a fabrication lab. It will be used to implement Project Based Learning. This is an engineering class at MVHS. The group of students presenting here built a robotic arm and hand for a fellow student that does not have use of their hand. | This is a school assembly that happened during the first day of externship. The whole school gathered. This is iLab. It's a class that was designed from the HTH model. One day we worked with a sixth grade class, whose teacher decided to try PBL. At Castle View High School a group of four teachers designed a program called MOSAIC. They recruited 100 students to participate in the PBL program. This is a first grade class at Mammoth Heights Elementary School. The class used exercise balls in place of chairs. Second grade teacher Mary Lisa B. at Mammoth Heights Elementary School received a grant to transform her classroom. Here, you can see students doing a "Mystery Skype" call with someone living in Mozambique. This way of learning geography is just one example of how innovative this classroom is. |