Month: September 2016

Every year since its start in 1999, Edison High School (EHS) 11th grade United States History students have participated in the Ellis Island Experience, an educational activity put on by the school’s Social Science Department.  Students take on the roles of characters who emigrated to the United States in 1908.  This year, the simulation began on September 29 and lasted two days. During the activity, participating students are tasked with adopting foreign accents, wearing period clothing, and trying their hardest to stay in character through a mock admission process to the United States.  To begin the process, students must...

For he beginning of the school year, Edison High School teacher Bill Matheny wanted nothing more than to show his students how much science rocks — by using billion-year-old rocks, that...

Students and staff at Edison High School (EHS) recently had the opportunity to witness an extraterrestrial display courtesy of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) – rare lunar and meteorite samples. As a part of the NASA Lunar and Meteorite Sample Disk program designed for K-12 classroom educators, Mr. Bill Matheny, Edison High School Science Teacher, exhibited these samples for all to see. Similar to a professional museum, Mr. Matheny’s classroom exhibit included rock and soil lunar samples, meteorite samples, informational material, educational activities, and even “moon-themed” music. The lunar materials (pictured right) were collected by astronauts during...