Springfield Sr/Jr. High School is excited to announce our
involvement with Project MORE.
Project MORE, Mentoring in Ohio for Reading Excellence, is a
volunteer reading mentoring project. It
is designed to improve reading for students with disabilities and has
demonstrated significantly improved reading results. Project MORE has also proven effective for
students who are at risk for reading failure.
Project MORE will be available for 7th and 8th
grade students who have not scored proficient or higher on the State reading
assessment.
Project MORE is a one-on-one reading program. Bowling Green
State University’s (BGSU) Center for Evaluation Services has validated this
strategy for reading intervention. Project
MORE is a scientifically based reading research (SBRR) program. Project MORE works with 140+ schools and
partners with 10 colleges and universities.
Each Project MORE student receives 30 minutes of mentoring
four times per week. These mentoring
sessions are conducted during a student’s study hall. Upper-class students in the high school will
serve as mentors for 7th and 8th grade students.
For more information about Project MORE contact Mrs.
Michelle Warner at 330-798-1002.
Seventh grade Language Arts classes are coming to the Library weekly. Our goal is to foster a love for the Library as they enter as seventh graders and continue throughout high school. We have been focusing on researching skills, becoming familiar with where resources are in the Library, and creating an environment that promotes life-long readers. Students are exciting each week to embark on a new experience in the Library.
Tina Hartong, 7th grade Language Arts
Angie Callaway, 7th Grade Language Arts
Lisa Brown, District Librarian
Pictures from 7th grade Callaway, Hartong 3, 4 language arts block.
In Health class the students are creating an Individual Fitness plans for themselves. The students will next work on a nutrition project which will help them evaluate their own individual food intake. Those projects are both individual projects. The class will do a group project on nutrition in which they create a teens only restaurant. The group project will have the students take nutritious food and create a teens only restaurant. This project will be computer generated. The students will get to use the computer labs to design and work on these projects. These projects are a great way for our students to apply what is being taught in Health class.
8th Grade Robotics
With $14,550 from GAR
Foundation’s Educator Initiative
Grant, written by teacher Robert
Lane, Springfield has added a
robotics course for eight
graders.
With curriculum and training by
Carnegie Mellon Robotics
Academy, Mr. Lane is using Lego
EV3 Robotics kits and ROBOTC
programming software to teach
students how to build and
program robots to meet a
variety of challenges. During each challenge, students are learning to integrate science, math and engineering skills
into the project. Students are also learning to problem solve and project management
skills.
Students start with a plan. They are learning to be very specific with what they want
the robot to accomplish. After creating a plan, students work on programming using
ROBOTC. (ROBOTC is a robotics programming language based on the C programming
language.) Programming the robot requires a great deal of problem solving and testing.
As students work on completing the challenge, they keep a journal listing issues and
how they came up with solutions.
Students will also be creating
presentations explaining their
challenges and how they
completed them.
After programming a virtual robot
to navigate through a labyrinth,
one student commented, “When I
signed up for the class, I thought
we were just going to be typing
code. But this is more. This is
really fun!”
Students are enjoying learning.
The following students completed at least 100 laps on the Pacer pre assessment for the 1st nine weeks in Mr. Lantzer's PE classes:
Manny Eppley 8th
Logan Woods 7th
Noah Costantino 8th
Will Gump 8th
Ronnie Bay 8th
Zane Hurst 8th
In Mrs. Smith's geometry class, students are working on released practice problems for the new PARCC end of course assessments. Students worked in groups to come up with solutions to a real-life scenario, and are presenting their answers to the class. The class then evaluated the answers, debated them, and came to a consensus on the correct answer.
Students in Mrs. Elliott's American History class have been busy learning the results of exploration and how this lead to European countries colonizing the Americas. Students discovered that Great Britain's first attempt at colonizing the Americas was unsuccessful but they persevered and tried again!!
Students in Mrs. Elliott's World History class have explored the 8 characteristics of a civilization. They are now applying these characteristics to the Civilization of Greece.
Both grades honored 9/11 with a video. The seventh graders watched a video from the perspective of people who were children at the time emphasizing our vocabulary word, perspective. The eighth graders watched a video from the government perspective to correspond with their study of government later in the year.
Both grades also celebrated Constitution Day by looking at the preamble to the Constitution. Groups of two students used the iPads to create a poster illustrating the meaning of the phrase they were assigned.