Daniel Cohen and Nate Trojian's "Thermal Energy" investigation-- they leave for the Johnson Space Center in Houston on April 29th to share their experiment !
Welcome to Ms Hazen's Enrichment Site!
The goal of the Enrichment Program at Two Rivers is to challenge not only our advanced learners, but to tap into the interests and talents of ALL students by providing different types and levels of enrichment/learning opportunities.
Students have opportunities to stretch their creative and critical thinking skills in the classroom and out of the classroom-- large and small groups. The model provides a "revolving door" method of providing opportunities for new students to revolve in and out of interest based or advanced academic "cluster " groups. There are also opportunities for individuals who demonstrate task commitment, above average ability, and strong interests to do in-depth investigations with a mentor that shares their passion. Check flyers that go home or the school web site to see upcoming interest groups that your child may want to participate in. They will also be able to initiate their own interest groups or individual investigation via our "lightbulb" form.
Did you know??
-We are a NASA Explorer School!! One of 25 nationwide. This is a 3 year grant/partnership we have with NASA. We have a Distance Learning Network to talk with astronauts We have access to NASA personal and resources for students and teachers. See all of the events, activities for students and training for teachers listed below.
--- Ms Tamborini , 6th grade Science teacher, went to the NASA Johnson Space Center with NASA Explorer School Team teachers to experience micorgavity to and to test experiment . Video-conferencing with the team will occured on Feb. 26th at 2Rivers to talk to the team while they are in Houston.
Check out her slide show and Blog on the schools' Home page!
-- A "Thermal Energy" investigation led by 8th graders Dan Cohen, Eric Jonsson, Nate Trojian and 7th grader Almeenah Shaikh was shared with NASA via a video conference on March 4th. theis Studetn Symposium allowed the team to share their experiment and get feedback from NASA experts and another Middle School team. Dan and Nate fly to the Johnson Space Center in Houston to share their research accopnied by Science teacher, Ed Smith, on Arpil 29th.
--The Dur-A-Flex company had chemists come to 2Rivers to give a demonstration of properties of Chemistry. A study trip to the East Hartford Co. also occured on Feb.10th.
*Upcoming Events:
---Invention Convention-- April 7th ..Winners go to the State Invention Convention at UConn on May 2nd.
After school sessions to help inventors meeet on Wednesdays, 3:30- 5:00 in Room 220
Inventors go to the State Capitol to share invetnions on April 15th.
--Bird Banding! Dr. Morrison, from Trintiy College, returns on May 5th to work with students to capture, identify, measure, weigh, band, and relaease small birds that are found in the wooded area next to our school. We hope to recapture some of the birds we banded last fall
As part of the Enrichment Program..
*Students who take the pre-tests for each MATH unit and "compact out" (know all or most of the material) work on extensions of the concepts in challenging math activities instead.
*25 8th graders take on-line high school classes through our Virtual High School Program
*Students with special interests and talents work independently or in small groups on topics/projects --computer programming, composing original musical pieces (Finale Notepad), Book discussion groups, chess groups, Math Olympiad teams, NASA Club, community service projects, etc.
If you are interested in leading an interest group or mentoring a student in an area of passion/hobby you have OR would like to be a trained Junior Great Books facilitatior, please contact me. chazen@crec.org
Christie Hazen
Enrichment Coordinator860-290-5320 ext 3220
