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District Honors Teachers
of the Year
The Spring Hill School
District announced its 2011 Teacher of the Year awards. The two
winners include: Megan Sandberg, math teacher at Spring Hill Middle
School, as its 2011 Elementary School Teacher of the Year, and
Georann Whitman, vocal music teacher at Spring Hill High School, as
the district’s 2011 Secondary Teacher of the Year. Read
more.
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Fifth Graders Tackle
Rollercoaster Design
In Dustin Barnes' fifth grade classroom at Spring Hill Intermediate
School, lessons learned in science were combined with fun activities
as a way of reinforcing the curriculum. Barnes' students, who had
learned about Newton's Laws of Motion, were challenged to integrate the laws
into rollercoaster track design. As a follow up to the initial
activity, students learned about
potential energy, kinetic energy, and the transfer of energy. During
Part 2 of the rollercoaster activity, the students had to use the
laws of motion combined with the types of energy they learned about
to construct working rollercoasters. The object was to keep a marble (the
coaster) on the track until the end and then have it stop as close to the
end as possible without rolling off or moving backward. Students'
tracks also had to have at least two curves and one loop. Not only
did this activity effectively demonstrate recent science lessons in
a fun way but it was also a great team building exercise for the
students.
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