Tuesday, November 14, 2017

Beyond the Hamburger

On In and Out Burger night I helped Ms Mickle and Ms Weesner to set up MakeyMakey and littleBits. Makey makey is a fun. You create a circuit using various objects that are conductive. When you create the circuit you can play fun games! Another thing that I helped with was littleBits. littleBits are a little different than MakeyMakey. You still create a circuit but the power source is a battery. Also in littleBits you create a circuit and try to make the fan, buzzer, or motor to work. I helped by teaching people how these two different things worked. There were also more fun things like Hour of Code, paper airplanes, and paper airplane launchers. I had lots of fun helping and playing. I hope that we do something like this again. JP - 6th grade











Thursday, November 2, 2017

Competition to Collaboration - FIrst Meeting

We made new friends from Russia today.  They speak Russian, French, and English.
Also they use celsius as their measurement for temperature. They have some of the same foods that we do. They have  pizza and Snickers. Some of the books they talked about we have never heard of before, but they sound interesting. We finished up by making paper airplanes and watching videos. One was about a new space movie that is coming out in Russia and one was about NASA.  We had a friendly competition of whose paper plane could fly the farthest. So to conclude, we had a lot of fun taking with them. - Alyssa 6th grade






Tuesday, October 31, 2017

Beyond the Expected....Writers Bootcamp

In Writer's Boot camp, I learned how to properly set up an essay, and I learned that it is a lot easier than I thought. Also, I got better at writing essays, and writers boot camp is something I will remember for a long time.
         -Rachel 7



 Writer's Boot Camp taught students how to correctly prepare an essay easily, finding it more simple than I thought. The challenges that we had to accomplish were a fun addition to the camp that I will never forget. I feel like this Camp helped students find out more about writing and the values of it.
         -Alexa 7



Writer's Boot Camp taught students how to write essays a lot more easily, without the stress of wondering if everything you are writing is right or wrong. I think I was a really creative way to to help us improve on our writing. I think the added challenges to receive our challenges made the activities a lot more exciting.
       -Claire 7

Friday, October 27, 2017

BEYOND High School

Career day was quite eventful I attended a talk show host who bow fishes on tv and has a show to! He has one of the fastest boats in the U.S I learned that no matter what career you take you can become anything you want to do in the future and still have a good revenue stream. - Azuka 8th Grade








Thursday, October 26, 2017

BEYOND EXCITED!!

Briarhill is BEYOND EXCITED to be the only K-12 public school in the state of Texas to be hosting a downlink with the astronauts on the International Space Station. A downlink is what JSC (Johnson Space Center) calls a virtual conference or Skype. Last April we submitted a letter of intent to JSC and in September received our February 14 downlink date.

Our 2017/18 school theme is BEYOND. As a school we are going BEYOND the expected. We are going:

  • BEYOND High School by hosting a career day. Students will choose three careers they wish to learn more about.
  • BEYOND the Classroom are various activities that we are offering students to join in order to better prepare them for our ISS Downlink.  Click here to view a SMORE that list various activities. 
  • BEYOND the Borders is an international collaboration between Briarhill students and students from Russia. Participating students will virtually meet, research their country's space agencies, and collaborate on a Google Slide presentation. 
We are going BEYOND the Expected this school year. By visiting our blog, we hope you will take this amazing journey with us.