7th grade

Checking out mealworms!

7th grade

Fish dissection.

6th grade

Fossil formation lab
Using different types of bread to create "layers" and gummy bears, Swizzlers and raisins for "fossils", the students take drill core "samples".
How do scientists figure out how old and in what period or era fossils come from?

5th grade

Continuing to learn about voluntary and involuntary muscles...
5th grade did an activity called reaction time checking both their left and right hands.
Then we did penny practice with left and right arms/hands.
Both were fun as they explored their reflexes and improved with practice.

4th grade

Continuing to learn about air, the 4th grade explores the concept of air pressure when they used straws to sip kool-aid, a Wind-Bag and a straw with a small styrofoam ball...
We are on our way to learning about FLIGHT!
Bernoulli's Principal here we come!

6th grade

Making molds with playdoh and animal figurines. Giving students an opportunity to think about - How do scientists identify a species based on fossils?

5th grade

Beginning to learn how the body uses forces and acts like a simple machine with our bones, muscles and nerves...
Exploring via Jumping rope...
Voluntary vs. involuntary muscles
What acted like a lever? A wheel and axle?
It's all connected!

4th grade To Rot or not To Rot

Which items will decompose? Which items will not?
Why does this happen? What items come from natural resources?

5th grade

Pulleys! Which pulley requires more work to be done?