Pre AP Biology students make real world connections! After studying the structure and functions of DNA these students extracted DNA and proteins from strawberries during a recent lab.

From the Desk of Kent Travis, Humanities Department Chair: Our lives tell a story. This is something we may have heard often lately, but that doesn’t make it any less true. Our lives tell a story and we’d do well to accept this, remember it, and live out days in full awareness that it is […]

It’s been a wintry wonderland at The Brook Hill Lower School this week. See how our teachers are using the winter season to create interactive lessons for our students: Students in Kindergarten wrote about snowmen and designed igloos after studying geometric shapes.

From the desk of Celia Tucker, Academic Counselor: Tyler Junior College and Jacksonville College came to Brook Hill this week to register students for Dual Credit courses. Dual Credit provides students the opportunity to earn college credit while they are still in high school, meaning that they are actually a college student and a high […]

Meet our College Ambassadors for this year (so far): Brook Hill College Ambassadors are the welcoming committee for college reps when they come to campus. All students are always encouraged to visit with the colleges but College Ambassadors will make a point to spend a few minutes greeting the representatives, picking up information from them, […]

  Middle school students Colton Drennan, Justin Powell, and Rachel Berkley competed in the ACSI District spelling bee this week. Rachel (6th Grade) got first place in her grade level competition! Thanks for representing Brook Hill Academics at this spelling bee! Go Guard!

Our 6th graders began studying The War Between The States this week in class. As a way of introducing the era to our students, Mr. Roquemore and Mrs. Eden took them to the American Freedom Museum here on campus. Students learned about the events and circumstances leading to the war as well as what life […]

8th graders  are studying outlaws and lawmen of the 1800’s to accompany their History Chapter “The Last Frontier”. As part of the study, students chose an outlaw and created a power point to introduce him to the class. These kind of activities are part of how we incorporate project-based learning and technology into the classroom […]

Students at The Brook Hill Lower School are studying about the contributions made by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.  Mrs. Smith’s first graders learned about Dr. King’s dream for America and wrote about their dream for a better world. They created Martin Luther King Jr. posters to go with their writing activity.

Students in 5th grade have been studying about energy and work.  To understand conduction, they observed the melting rate of chocolate chips along a piece of foil.  Students noted which melted first, second, etc. and then placed the candle at a different spot to see if it changed the order of melting.  To understand about […]

6th grade students in Mrs. Wallace’s science class learned about earthquakes this week. Students built structures in groups of two to see what would survive earthquake conditions, simulated by quickly removing sandpaper out from under the structure. Many of our students were able to build earthquake-resistant structures.  

    After studying how energy transfers from potential to kinetic energy in a roller coaster, 5th graders were given the challenge to  build one out of sentence strips and tape.  Students were given the task of building the slowest roller coaster with at least 4 ramps, 2 tunnels, 1 trap door and a surprise.  […]