Lexington High School: Lexington, Nebraska, USA

Hi from "Big Red Country" !!!

Yes, Lexington High School is about dead center in the Cornhusker State --- Nebraska --- and we do love our football team at UNL in the capital city of Lincoln. Our school is comprised of 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th grade students. Our school population is approximately 750 students with about 36% Hispanics and 2% Oriental due to IBP which is Iowa Beef Packing, so we have a large number of ESL students.

The class at LHS that will be participating in the global water testing project is an Integrated Math Science Problem Solving class which is a spin-off from the Toyota Time Grant Award that the two instructors won last year. We go to the Platte River which is 5 miles from the school site to a place called Westmisister Woods which is a church camp ground. We try to go to the site twice a week if bus transportation can be arranged. While out there we collect all sorts of data, and the students are actively engaged in the river testing for they are required to use their life jackets and go into the water. There is also a sand pit that we collect data from north of the river that the students use.

The students in this class are mainly juniors and seniors, having a mixture of both male and females. Nearly half of the class are Hispanic. The students also must keep a journal of all the activities that we engage in. We are very excited about this opportunity to collect data from around the world to do our research with.

Sandy Meyer
Mathematics Teacher
Lexington High School
Lexington, Nebraska 68850