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Two Teachers of Science Honored With Award From Lexmark
Two Lexington teachers of science honored with Inspire teaching award from Lexmark

Elizabeth Cook, center, won the Inspire teaching award. She is flanked by Carley Hardin from Lexmark on the left and Judi Hunter, principal of Northern Elementary on the right.

Lexmark’s Inspire teaching awards for science, technology, engineering and math teachers have been given this year to Elizabeth Cook and Ashlie Arkwright.
 
Cook teaches fourth grade at Northern Elementary in Georgetown.
 
Her students are the school energy team, continually monitoring the institution’s energy usage and saving the school thousands over the last few years.

Her class energy project was to conduct an energy audit of Sadieville’s city hall and police station.
 
Students made recommendations after the audit.
 
Northern Elementary also became a 2013 National Green Ribbon School, one of three in Kentucky, in part because of Cook’s class’ work.

Arkwright, a middle school science teacher at the School for the Creative and Performing Arts in Lexington, tries to link real-world experiences with science to make it relevant and engaging for her students. For example, her students recently completed a unit of study on motion and forces by designing and building working models of roller coasters.
 
As part of her focus on environmental science, Arkwright’s students participate in a national Eco Challenge competition each year. Collectively they design and implement a campaign encouraging people to make one small change that has a positive impact on the environment, such as switching from plastic bags to reusable lunch containers at school.

Two Teachers of Science Honored With Award From Lexmark
Two Lexington teachers of science honored with Inspire teaching award from Lexmark

Elizabeth Cook, center, won the Inspire teaching award. She is flanked by Carley Hardin from Lexmark on the left and Judi Hunter, principal of Northern Elementary on the right.

Lexmark’s Inspire teaching awards for science, technology, engineering and math teachers have been given this year to Elizabeth Cook and Ashlie Arkwright.
 
Cook teaches fourth grade at Northern Elementary in Georgetown.
 
Her students are the school energy team, continually monitoring the institution’s energy usage and saving the school thousands over the last few years.

Her class energy project was to conduct an energy audit of Sadieville’s city hall and police station.
 
Students made recommendations after the audit.
 
Northern Elementary also became a 2013 National Green Ribbon School, one of three in Kentucky, in part because of Cook’s class’ work.

Arkwright, a middle school science teacher at the School for the Creative and Performing Arts in Lexington, tries to link real-world experiences with science to make it relevant and engaging for her students. For example, her students recently completed a unit of study on motion and forces by designing and building working models of roller coasters.
 
As part of her focus on environmental science, Arkwright’s students participate in a national Eco Challenge competition each year. Collectively they design and implement a campaign encouraging people to make one small change that has a positive impact on the environment, such as switching from plastic bags to reusable lunch containers at school.

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April 10, 2014 at 10:46 AM