ImagineWest Micro School
West Edgecombe Middle School
In Class This Week...
6th Grade!
Spokes (Art Collective)
Students in Ms. Schultz’s 6th grade spokes class are reviewing art history and have studied different styles of art - from Japanese printmaking, Impressionism, abstract art, and pointillism, to pop and op art. This week they recreated famous works of modern art with paint and canvases, including works from renowned artists such as Monet, O’Keefe, Van Gogh, and Picasso.
7th Grade!
SPOKES (STEM Collective)
This term, 7th graders will be diving more into the world of STEM. First, they started building a car out of mousetraps, old CDs, and some wood. After a lot of glue, callused fingertips, and knot tying, the 7th graders build a working car that is powered by a mousetrap! In order to make connections with Science, they calculated the cars' average speed by measuring the time it traveled 10 feet. Then, they graphed the information on a scatterplot to visualize trends in its speed!
And then, of course, we raced the cars to see whose was fastest.
After a few days of fun with the mousetrap cars, students were then broken up into groups and were assigned different STEM kits for a hands-on explorative experience. Groups included building a model V-8 Engine, exploring Fluid Dynamics and the laws of Physics, building a Smart Home, LEGO Spike Kits, and K'nex kits. Using each of these kits, students will hopefully discover the budding inner engineer!
Mr. O'Shea's class
Mr. O'Shea introduced his class to the basics of computer programming and electronics. Students got their hands on an Arduino, a breadboard, and some wires to program basic functions like flashing lights or a thermometer. The final product kind of looks like what you might see if you took apart a computer or even a microwave. Once they connect all the wires to the right places, they connected it to a computer and wrote the code that tells all the wires and microchips what to do. COOL STUFF!
ImagineWest Micro School
Email: imaginewest@ecps.us
Website: wems.ecps.us
Location: 6301 Nobles Mill Pond Road, Rocky Mount, NC, USA
Phone: 252-446-2030
Facebook: facebook.com/westedgecombems