Students at Dzantik'i Heeni Middle School are digging deep into learning about salmon, from guts to growth. Science teachers and cultural specialists formed a large unit on salmon - from traditional science to cultural importance.
...an outdoor laboratory for students. "There are all kinds of things you could use this as a lab for," said science and math teacher Paula Savikko, strolling in the newly created park. Savikko, science teacher Pam Wells and language arts teacher...
...something. The fact you can see, you can hear, you can do something, does help the learning." Betty Carlson, a science and math teacher of gifted students at Auke Bay Elementary, taught students to write a computer program that allowed them to create...
...learned a lot about myself in this project. I learned if I don't have an immediate due date, I procrastinate." Science and math teacher Paula Savikko said year-long, rites-of-passage projects like Schrader's give students the vehicle to...
...the only science teacher from Alaska among 93 in the United States to receive the nation's highest award for science and math teachers last Thursday at a ceremony in Washington, D.C. Sound off on the important issues at "My family got to come...
...is a problem and it can be changed." Students started on their projects in November, said Topaz Shryock, a science and math teacher in Cedar House. They made the required tables, graphs and posters in school, and did the research at home...
...computer science," she said, "but they're seeing how fun and interesting those fields can be." At JDHS, science and math teachers Ben Collman and Ricky Bass are racing against time to help their five-student team build and program their...
...skills and luck in picking good partners in the Alliance rounds will earn them a higher overall finish. At JDHS, science and math teachers Ben Collman and Ricky Bass are racing against time to help their five-student team build and program their...
...something. The fact you can see, you can hear, you can do something, does help the learning." Betty Carlson, a science and math teacher of gifted students at Auke Bay Elementary, taught students to write a computer program that allowed them to create...
...learned a lot about myself in this project. I learned if I don't have an immediate due date, I procrastinate." Science and math teacher Paula Savikko said year-long, rites-of-passage projects like Schrader's give students the vehicle to...
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