Students in Anna Muncy's Anatomy & Physiology I class study the body's muscular system by creating personalized notebooks and models.
The notebooks reflect the students' individual learning styles and creativity. Handcolored diagrams of muscular groups are identified by type — for example, striated or smooth — and carefully annotated.
Using their Chromebooks for additional research on the Internet, students explore the various muscle groups and tendons responsible for coordinated hand movements before creating hand models that illustrate the principles of hand muscle control.
In creating their hand models, students learn that several muscles that originate at the posterior surface of the ulna or the radius have their actions in the hand. Those include the abductor pollicis longus, which abducts and extends the thumb; the extensor pollicis brevis, which extends the metacarpophalangeal joint of the thumb; the extensor pollicis, which extends the distal phalanx, or finger bone, of the thumb; and the extensor indicis, which extends the index finger at the metacarpophalangeal joint.
In addition, there are many small muscles of the hand that have both their origin and their insertion within the hand itself. Those are referred to as the intrinsic hand muscles. They include the palmaris brevis, which assists with grip; the umbricals, which flex the MCP joints and extend the interphalangeal joints of the fingers; the palmar interossei, which adduct the fingers toward the middle finger; and the dorsal interossei, which abduct the fingers away from the middle finger.
The Anatomy & Physiology 1 class is a great example of blended learning which combines traditional, print-based study with Internet research and physical modeling for optimal student learning outcomes.
There is an air of friendly competition among the 25 juniors and seniors in Sam Winslow's Statistics class. Today's challenge to the students who are working in groups or individually: to determine confidence intervals when certain variables, such as the population mean (μ), are unknown.
A confidence interval displays the probability that a certain parameter will fall between a pair of values around the mean. In other words, it measures the degree of certainty or uncertainty in a sampling method. Confidence intervals are most often constructed using levels of 95% or 99%.
For example, if a survey is conducted on a sample of a population (e.g., sample n=100 out of a city population of N=100,000), the confidence interval tells you both the possible range around the estimate and also how stable the estimate is. A stable estimate is one that would be close to the same value if the survey were repeated.
Working in groups or individually, students in Lisa Carne's College Composition class engage in a peer editing exercise.
Looking at anonymous comparison and contrast submissions from a previous class, students critically engage with samples of student writing by highlighting where effective writing strategies were used and where the writing could have been improved.
"The editing exercise is an important step in the preparation of students before they engage in their own writing," notes Carne. "Learning from prior examples allows students to be more purposeful when they start to work on their own comparison-contrast essays."
In Jason Lambert's AP Literature course, students explore writing prompts for the AP exam related to A Doll's House, a three-act play written in 1879 by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen.
A Doll's House portrays the disintegration of the marriage between Nora and Torvald Helmer in the wake of a major revelation. Nora, a seemingly frivolous housewife, has secretly been working to pay off a loan she took out illegally in order to save Torvald's life.
One of the prompts for the 40 minute, free-response essay that students could be asked to write about at the exam in May 2022 is the following: "Many works of literature contain a character who intentionally deceives others. The character’s dishonesty may be intended either to help or to hurt. Such a character, for example, may choose to mislead others for personal safety, to spare someone’s feelings, or to carry out a crime. Choose a novel or play, such as A Doll's House, in which a character deceives others. Then, in a well-written essay, analyze the motives for that character’s deception and discuss how the deception contributes to the meaning of the work as a whole."
Advanced Placement (AP) examinations are exams offered in United States by the College Board and are taken each May by students. The tests are the culmination of year-long AP courses and may be accepted by colleges and universities as credit or placement criteria.
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Whether a student wants to learn something new or further develop their existing skills, Brian Moore’s Keyboarding class allows them to do just that.
Each day, students choose what they personally want to work on improving, whether that be reading music, rhythm, hand position, or posture. They play songs found in either their method book or through an online program that guides their finger placement and helps them count the beat.
Students clear their song choices with Mr. Moore to make sure they are a good fit for developing their current skill level and checks in with each student several times during class to provide feedback and suggestions.
At the end of the week, students assess their progress with a rubric and set their own learning goals for the following week.
Students in Lance Levesque's Digital Photo/Video I class have just completed the unit on the "exposure triangle" in photography and are taking a quiz to check for understanding.
The concept of the exposure triangle refers to the interrelationship between aperture, shutter speed, and ISO number (traditional film speed) in taking photographs for specific settings. Whenever one variable changes, at least one of the others must also change to maintain the correct exposure.
Sports photography, for example, typically requires higher shutter speed in order to "freeze the action" while longer shutter speeds in nature photography can help convey the movement of water of a brook or stream. Artistic photographs — for example, portraits taken in the Rembrandt lighting style — take the concept of the exposure triangle to a whole new level for yet another specific effect.
On Friday, English teacher Jason Lambert met with students in the Lucy Hurlin Theatre to talk about Poetry Out Loud.
Created by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation in 2005, Poetry Out Loud is held annually in partnership with the state arts agencies of all 50 states, the District of Columbia, the US Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico. In New Hampshire, the competition is co-sponsored by the State Council on the Arts.
Lambert explained how to engage with poetry in general and reviewed the ways in which students could select poems for the school-wide competition. Students were encouraged to visit and research the Poetry Foundation's website to familiarize themselves with the contest criteria and to see what type of poems they might connect with.
Lambert also shared the story of ConVal's Bria Frehner (Class of 2013) who in 2012 represented the school at the regional, state, and ultimately at the national level of the Poetry Out Loud competition in Washington, D.C.
As part of the continued work on the solar panel array atop ConVal Regional High School, contractors are accessing the roof in two different locations.
One access ladder has been set up just to the left of the loading dock in the back of the school and another ladder is set up on the "Void" side of the link.
On Thursday, a crane lifted equipment on the roof in the 200 section of the classrooms to get everything ready for further work next week, when the installation of the solar system will proceed in parallel with the fitting of new heating coils that will service classrooms in the 100 section of the building.
Students in Anna Muncy's Anatomy & Physiology I class study the body's muscular system by creating personalized notebooks and models.
The notebooks reflect the students' individual learning styles and creativity. Handcolored diagrams of muscular groups are identified by type — for example, striated or smooth — and carefully annotated.
Using their Chromebooks for additional research on the Internet, students explore the various muscle groups and tendons responsible for coordinated hand movements before creating hand models that illustrate the principles of hand muscle control.
In creating their hand models, students learn that several muscles that originate at the posterior surface of the ulna or the radius have their actions in the hand. Those include the abductor pollicis longus, which abducts and extends the thumb; the extensor pollicis brevis, which extends the metacarpophalangeal joint of the thumb; the extensor pollicis, which extends the distal phalanx, or finger bone, of the thumb; and the extensor indicis, which extends the index finger at the metacarpophalangeal joint.
In addition, there are many small muscles of the hand that have both their origin and their insertion within the hand itself. Those are referred to as the intrinsic hand muscles. They include the palmaris brevis, which assists with grip; the umbricals, which flex the MCP joints and extend the interphalangeal joints of the fingers; the palmar interossei, which adduct the fingers toward the middle finger; and the dorsal interossei, which abduct the fingers away from the middle finger.
The Anatomy & Physiology 1 class is a great example of blended learning which combines traditional, print-based study with Internet research and physical modeling for optimal student learning outcomes.
There is an air of friendly competition among the 25 juniors and seniors in Sam Winslow’s Statistics class. Today’s challenge to the students who are working in groups or individually: to determine confidence intervals when certain variables,
In Jason Lambert’s AP Literature course, students explore writing prompts for the AP exam related to A Doll’s House, a three-act play written in 1879 by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen.
Students in Lance Levesque’s Digital Photo/Video I class have just completed the unit on the “exposure triangle” in photography and are taking a quiz to check for understanding.
The concept of the exposure triangle refers to the interrelationship between aperture,
As part of the continued work on the solar panel array atop ConVal Regional High School, contractors are accessing the roof in two different locations.
One access ladder has been set up just to the left of the loading dock in the back of the school and another ladder is set up on the “Void”