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Parkway Middle School
Essential Question:
How does change affect society?

Project Desciption:
History demonstrates that when new inventions are introduced into a society, the society changes. What would society be like without these inventions? What cultural changes have come about as a result of these inventions? The same holds true for challenges that people face. People's reactions to challenges transform a community's way of life.

Parkway Midde students researched and analyzed change's impact on the economic, social, political and ethical activities of our society.


Teachers/Classes:

Ms. Myrielle Badio (7th Grade Math): Students chose an inventor connected to math and his/her invention/discovery.  They then conducted research and created movies to show what they learned about the inventor and invention and how it influences their lives now.

Ms. Michele Barbush (7th Grade Language Arts) and Ms. Roslynn Ferguson (7th Grade Science): Students in both of these teachers' classes chose an inventor and his/her invention(s) and then conducted research, discovering the impact of that invention on their lives today.  Movies and multimedia presentations were then developed to reveal what they had learned.


Ms. Daneen Brown (7th Grade Social Studies): Students chose a topic of concern in our world today and then conducted research on that topic related to the positive and negative effects on them.  Students also presented ideas for reversing the negative effects.  Examples of their topics included global warming and water pollution. Students then created either a multimedia presentation or an iMovie for presenting their findings.

Ms. Melissa Haake (8th Grade Social Studies): Students combined their Social Studies Fair and GLIDES Project by chosing an event in American History that involved conflict and compromise.  Examples of topics include The Boston Tea Party, The Montgomery Bus Boycott, The Salem Witch Trials, The Atomic Bomb, Brown vs. the Board of Education, Martin Luther King, Jr. & Malcolm X, Pontiac's War, and the Attack on Pearl Harbor.  After conducting research, students used multimedia presentations, movies and podcasts to demonstrate their learned concepts.

Ms. Chandra Young (8th Grade Science): Students chose a topic of concern related to change in the world and how that change effects them, both in a positive and negative way.  Examples of topics included global warming, water pollution, Hip Hop music, MRSA, and air pollution.  After students researched their topic, they then created a movie with pictures, video and original music.

Ms. Mary (Katie) Conway (Media Specialist): Ms. Conway was the lead for the GLIDES Project, the Master of Ceremonies during the presentations at Parkway, and assisted in scheduling consultants and use of laptop carts  in the Media Center.  She also assisted students doing research by using the Research Process Model, making sure students were citing resources correctly and helped students with the software applications during the building phase of the project.