Students in 8th-grade ELA celebrated the end of their novel study on The Outsiders by participating in Greaser Day. They did a great job capturing the essence of the characters. Teachers had fun participating as well!
Attention Fairview High School students and parents!
The FHS Challenge Yearbooks, business ads, and senior ads will be on sale starting October 4th.
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Purchase now to lock in the current prices before they increase!
The ROAR Store is open for business! Dozens of students stopped down for the grand opening and spent their well- earned ROAR tickets!
Fairview School Foundation's FHS September student of the month. These students were recognized for our first pillar of ROAR, which is Respect. Congratulations!
White Board Wednesday engages Ms. Nelson’s 9th grade American students, who respond to questions on their individual white boards by writing or drawing answers and ideas based on class content resources such as text readings and video segments.
Ninth grade environmental science students finished their final day of biodiversity journals, each finding at least 20 different species around campus. One of the students more interesting finds was locating the galleries left by the invasive emerald ash borer.
12th grade Earth Science Students are exploring the agents of weathering and erosion. The stream tray will continue to be used for the Mass Movement module as well.
Last week in social studies 7th grade students have been looking at global population demographics and graphing the data in fun ways. Students took their data and conducted a data analysis looking for trends and connections across the data set.
FHS accounting students visited the middle school for the 6th grade Shark Tank projects. The Sharks enjoyed the presentations and innovative ideas that the 6th grade teams had.
The Honors Algebra II students were graphing piecewise functions at the board.
Innovation 1, building bridges on a budget. The class needed to learn about the 6 types of bridges, then use the principles on a bridge we built from crazy supplies under budget. All bridges held at least 10 pounds. Two held 40 pounds, and one held Tamar.
The 7th and 8th grade student council elections took place on Thursday! Earlier in the week, over a dozen candidates presented their platforms to their peers. Every candidate would be a wonderful officer! Best of luck to all candidates as we wait for the results!
Mr. Brinling's AP Psychology class created Play-Doh brains to help them learn and remember the brain's essential functions.
Mrs. Quiggle's AP Human Geography class is studying the impacts of migration. Students are calculating the gravitational pull of cities, comparing migration models, categorizing push and pull factors, and analyzing how women impact demographic change.
Mrs. Fair’s senior English class created posters and slideshows to feature the best traits and places in America. The class will present their ideas to the class next week as an introduction to their American literature unit.
Mrs. Nies's 9th grade social studies course recently finished a project on early inventions of the 20th century, following their unit of study on the US Industrial Revolution post Civil War.
Mrs. Wegner's Sketchbook winners of the week.
Pre-AP Chemistry students produced brass-plated Lincoln cents while investigating the nuanced differences between chemical and physical changes.
Students in Mrs. Nies's and Mrs. McManus's senior English classes heard a presentation from Keith Knauff from PA CareerLink this week. Mr. Knauff's presentation provided the students with future career planning, resume assistance and connections to local businesses.
Students from Fairview, including high school students Casey Bolla, Julia Burford, and Ellery Nornhold, attended the "Ship to Shore" Program conducted by the Regional Science Consortium. They sailed on the converted fishing vessel the Lettie G. Howard, drew aquatic samples from the bay, learned about the physics behind shipbuilding and used these principles to create their own vessel prototype.
