Active Learning

Sharpstown High is advocating an "Active Approach" to teaching. The pictures below depict hands-on learning. The teaching philosophy these days is different from years past. You will remember more of you do than what you hear, thus the SHS faculty has adopted teaching strategies that get students involved in the learning process. The new teaching strategies are raising student success.

Mr. Paul Gueverra is pictured here as he demonstrates the technique used to measure speed and time. The students were given a weighted string and a plastic handle to spin the string and determine the number of rotations is a specified time. Thus, determining the speed of the string.

All students enjoyed participating in the activity and were enthusiastic about the outcomes.

In this experiment, “Circular Motion,” the students will examine the relationship between the force that maintains circular motion, the radius, and the tangential speed of a whirling object.