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McNair AVID students tutor twice weekly at Golfview Elementary.
GOLFVIEW ELEMENTARY AND MCNAIR MIDDLE
Two Rockledge feeder schools, Golfview Elementary and McNair Magnet Middle have joined forces to make the most of curriculum programs they have in common. In addition to both schools focusing on performing arts, both schools are STEAM magnets, and both schools have active AVID programs. Advancement via Individual Determination or AVID is a national program designed to prepare students for college readiness. Golfview is the only elementary school participating in AVID in the district.
Beginning last month, select McNair eighth grade AVID students visit Golfview on Tuesdays and Thursdays to provide tutoring to sixth grade Golfview students who sign up ahead of time for help. The brainchild of McNair’s eighth grade AVID teacher (and full time dance teacher), Penny Conwell, the two schools are helping reinforce not only the AVID mantra, but the feeder school system as well.
“It’s a great experience for both schools,”said Cindy Stewart, McNair AVID coordinator. “Our students are learning to build their leadership skills which is part of the AVID experience. Golfview students get the help they need and chance to work on problems they are struggling with that week.”
“The high school chemistry students really enjoyed having the freedom to develop their own lesson plan for the VPK students,” Sheila Pearlman, Merritt Island early childhood teacher said. “They also enjoyed being able to apply what they learned and share it with other in a fun way.”
“We loved seeing the little kids’ faces when the experiments worked,” said one high schooler.
MERRITT ISLAND HIGH
Merritt Island High chemistry honors students recently taught an in-class lesson to the school’s voluntary pre-kindergarten (VPK) students about chemical reactions.
Because Halloween was top of mind, the secondary students wanted to demonstrate spooky science experiments to show the younger students the fun side of science. They performed their own research on how to teach the early learning age on such subjects and planned, organized and executed a safe, productive lab. The lesson focused on the basics of the scienti c method and simple methodical techniques to produce chemical reactions.
VPK students in Merritt Island High’s early childhood program enjoy chemistry experiments for Halloween.
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