Staying Creative with Common Core Standards

Schools are striving  to be staying creative with Common Core standards, meeting curriculum goals while still stimulating strategic thinking. Heavy reliance on texts that contain large amounts of information, such as science books is one challenge educators face with...

Using Canned Goods To Build Help For Charity

Intermediate students have developed a unique project with volunteer mentors, using canned goods to build help for charity. At Johnson City intermediate schools, students collaborated with professional engineers in using over 1600 cans to build an American flag and an...

Students Show Problem Solving Skills to NASA

Seven teams of sixth graders were given the opportunity to have students show problem solving skills to NASA. When the middle school students participated in an internet showcase of student solutions to engineering problems, leaders from the National Aeronautics and...