Administrative Internship: South Creek Middle School
VISION: SCMS is a community of collaborative problem solvers determined to inspire successful goal setting graduates.
MISSION: SCMS encourages and prepares students to become respectful, self-directed, 21st Century learners through a rigorous curriculum and structured academic environment.
MOTTO: “South Creek Middle School, where all students are engaged in learning. We show our Cougar P.R.I.D.E. through participation, respect, integrity, dedication and engagement. Go Cougars!”
MISSION: SCMS encourages and prepares students to become respectful, self-directed, 21st Century learners through a rigorous curriculum and structured academic environment.
MOTTO: “South Creek Middle School, where all students are engaged in learning. We show our Cougar P.R.I.D.E. through participation, respect, integrity, dedication and engagement. Go Cougars!”
We have worked hard this year to help our students develop 21st century skills.
Our staff has meet and developed lesson and activities around the 4 C's during our weekly PLC meetings.
We also received several grant this year to help our students in the STEM field and with PBL learning:
River Guardians Project through State Farm grant: water quality $8,000
NC Beautiful: help with the development of gardening and the understanding of soil and plants: $750
Bright Ideas: PBL 6th grade for Greek STEM activities $550
PRISM: STEM grant for 6th-8th grade materials and weather station $4,000
Below you will find our 2015/2016 STEM plan:
STEM Lessons/Projects at SCMS
6th grade:
Foyer Department (EC)
7th Grade:
8th Grade:
Our staff has meet and developed lesson and activities around the 4 C's during our weekly PLC meetings.
We also received several grant this year to help our students in the STEM field and with PBL learning:
River Guardians Project through State Farm grant: water quality $8,000
NC Beautiful: help with the development of gardening and the understanding of soil and plants: $750
Bright Ideas: PBL 6th grade for Greek STEM activities $550
PRISM: STEM grant for 6th-8th grade materials and weather station $4,000
Below you will find our 2015/2016 STEM plan:
STEM Lessons/Projects at SCMS
6th grade:
- Grade Level Gods and Goddess Project in which students will be reading the novel Lightening Thief in literature class and discussing Greek Mythology. The Art class will be doing paintings and clay models of Greek Gods and Goddess. Social Studies class will be exploring and researching early Greek civilization and how it has affected architecture, science, art and math. The math class will be looking at how the early Greeks used Math to figure out the Earths circumference, planetary distances and geometrical shapes. The science class will be researching and doing presentations on planets including composition, atmosphere and we will be looking at space exploration for each planet including the Apollo project with the moon. The students also will be challenged with building orbital space landers in which they will be given a task and materials to complete the mission. They will also be examining lunar and meteorite materials from NASA’s Johnson Space Center. The mobile planetarium will also be used to help explain the night sky and how early settlers used it for travel.
- Rocking thru the Earth project: The sixth grade science classes will be looking at rock material provided by Martin Marietta in which they will be studying types, formations and uses of rock and how it relates to the Earths structure including plate tectonics. They will be using IRIS data to explore plate boundaries and actions along boundaries that include earthquakes and volcano patterns. This is real data that they will use to plot and understand plate movement and actions at these boundaries. Math will be incorporated in the study to show how math is used at the rock quarry for measuring materials and selling the product.
- Apple Farm: Literature class will be reading a novel about an apple farmer who is losing his crops and they have to determine why. The science class will look at plants and variables needed for plant survival. They will particular look at apples and products made from apples. Focusing on photosynthesis and plant anatomy.
Foyer Department (EC)
- Gardening and Plant Study: They will be completing a raised bed garden project in which they will grow and harvest vegetables and flowers. They will track the growth and which season to grow what type of vegetables. The students will learn the different variables of gardening and plants (soil, water, fertilizer, sun for photosynthesis and plant parts). They will be taught life skills such as how to cook these vegetables, how growing your food is sustainable and nutritional value in vegetables.
7th Grade:
- Air Quality IQ project/competition: This is a competition done through NC Division of Air Quality in which 7th grade students choose a air quality issue and create a poster/game or video. They also have to create a solution to that air quality issue. All of our 7th grade students will take part in this and then we will judge and submit from there.
- Citizen Science Cloud tracking: After our student can identify cloud types and weather patterns they will enter cloud data into the science data base, which will be determined by satellite data depending on the date and time.
- Geocaching: Our 7th graders will be doing a geocaching project which they will use a literature story about survival, then the social studies class will be doing a geocaching activity which will reinforce GPS/GIS concepts taught in class. During this geocaching project they will be picking survival materials and explain what they chose based on science concepts on the human body including what the body needs for survival.
8th Grade:
- Water Quality Testing: 8th grade science classes will be completing water quality testing using local water supplies to test for different variables: temperature, dissolved oxygen, pH, nitrates, phosphates, turbidity, and bio-indicators. We will be exploring the causes of these variables including good water vs. unhealthy water. The students will be exploring ways to treat water, maintain safe water and stewardship of water.