Winners from volleyball in the BSL.
Fairview hosted a Model United Nations bloc meeting where world issues were discussed. This year Fairview is representing Sudan, the United Kingdom, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as well a Salem Witch Trial Crisis Committee.
Students in Creative Writing updated artist Phillip Niemeyer's chart where he symbolically captured American life from 2000-2009. They had a limited amount of time to interpret one year metaphorically by considering different elements of society (fads, fears, It!, etc.). Many groups interpreted 2024. Victoria and Sammi came up with the most metaphors for multiple years, Bear's group reflected on 2020, and Leena, Makenzi, Rachel, and Peyton remembered the killer clowns that scared us all in 2016.
On Friday, October 18th a group of students visited Mercyhurst University to learn about the history of and the experience offered at Mercyhurst.
Students in Mr. Parmeter's classroom are using scatter plots and fitting of a line to take real world data and write equations of a line. (y=mx+b). Using the equation of a line the students are predicting what the data would look like in the future, as well what it would have looked like in the past. Connecting the math to the real world, helps in the understanding of the content while motivating them tp be good problem solvers.
Students in AP Statistics are using a dice shuffleboard game to bring probability terms to life.
Mrs. Fair's sophomore English class performed the last act of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Students were responsible for dramatic reading, acting, and designing costumes.
Thirteen FHS art students attended Edinboro Art Day at PennWest. They participated in live demonstrations and hands-on workshops to explore what college life would be like in an arts program.
Photo II students explored analog photography. They learned how to think in black and white, expose film, develop negatives and print in the darkroom. This process helped the students slow down and pay attention to details. They also had to work through setbacks and think about many factors that could change their images.
Mariya Hoja shadowed aquatic biologist Sarah Magyan recently. She learned how scientists at the Regional Science Consortium monitor the waters of Lake Erie for toxic algal blooms, and participated in water sample collection.
The FHS library is transitioning from fall to Halloween, and we are having a monstrously good time. Mrs. Cross has done a fangtastic job decorating. The spider has been a particularly boo-tiful addition. So come in and check out a spooktacular book! Our library is eerie-sistible at this time of year.
Spanish Club visited the 4th grade classrooms today to teach how to talk about things we love, like and don’t like. It was a great trip down memory lane for some of our high schoolers who taught in their own 4th grade classrooms!
FHS social studies teachers spent their in-service day at the Hagen History Center working on curriculum and presenting to area teachers.
The Current Events class has been covering a unit on fake news and media literacy. The students were treated to guest speaker, Rob Frank, on the topic of fake and AI generated images. Rob is a private business owner and a professor at Penn State Behrend, with his background in photography, he made the presentation meaningful and engaging for the students.
Miss Miele’s CP English IV students worked in the library with Mr. Barbour to find quality research for their essays in which they are connecting John Steinbeck’s “The Turtle” to the historical events of the 1930s. The students are connecting literary symbols to history in order to demonstrate the allegorical nature of the short story.
Julia Burford, Caden Surrett, and Ananya Desireddi study the effects of pH on enzyme activity in AP Biology. The Vernier LabQuests and Spectrophotometers have been purchased using MiniGrants from the Fairview School Foundation.
Super nice Erie Otters make a connection with a super fan in innovation class.
Students in AP Precalculus use popcorn and geometry to model exponential functions and analyze the graphs of regression and residual plots. They were encouraged to support their conclusions and choices with logical reasoning and relevant data.
Mrs. Wegner and Mr. Bookhammer collaborated to host a workshop for the Studio Art 2+ students, where they were introduced to and explored the possibilities of painting in virtual reality. During the workshop, students reflected on the essential question: How does creating art in virtual reality transform the artistic process and expand the possibilities for expression and interaction?
In Ms. Turner's Environmental Science class 9th graders went to the creek and gathered samples to look for macro-organisms.
