Exploring Worms at the Nature Museum
Mr. Cherry Bio
Ryan Cherry is from Brooklyn, Michigan and attended Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois. He is a highly qualified educator who spent the last 14 years working in various educational settings around the Midwest. After seeing his high school soccer coach be an influential role model in the lives of his elementary students, he studied elementary education in college as he sought to also positively impact the lives of students. He did his student teaching in 5th grade at Cleveland School in Chicago. He taught Language Arts and Math in a 5th grade classroom in Brookfield, IL, all subjects in a 4th through 6th grade room at a public Montessori school in Indiana and at Hibbard Elementary in CPS before coming to Decatur in 2017.
Mr. Cherry is inquisitive and curious about the people and world around him. He enjoys reading as it a great avenue to better understand people and our world. He agrees with Dr. Seuss that "the more you read, the more things you will know. The more you learn, the more places you'll go." Mr. Cherry is filled with immense excitement about the chance to teach physical education, as it combines his passion for physical activity and sports with the joy of engaging with students and supporting them enthusiastically. He is fascinated by neuroscience and its intersection with physical activity and is grateful for the chance to have students four days each week to encourage their physical activity.
He is passionate about seeing students gain confidence in their abilities to be successful in both the classroom and the world and become well rounded individuals who care for others as they care for themselves. In his free time, Mr. Cherry enjoys playing sports, spending time with friends and family and enjoying a delicious slice of pie with some strong coffee.
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Building a battery at Argonne National Laboratory
Building a battery at Argonne National Laboratory
Our ingredients for making the salad dressing were oil, vinegar, citric acid, sugar and lecithin.
Salad Dressing Anyone?
Students added 3 different solid substances to a mixture of oil and water to see which substance served as the best emulsifier as we try to create a stable salad dressing that doesn't separate into layers.
6th graders this week created school campus designs that incorporated how they would mitigate the human impact involved in building a school.
In our after school Science Club, we have been working on coding. This is an example of one of the projects students created using code.
Students exploring the attraction of different liquids through looking at the shape of the liquid on the penny and the number of drops their penny held before spilling over the edge.
This is what one of the erosion mitigation structures (created by 6th graders) looked like after it withstood a series of waves.
This week in Science 6th graders built erosion mitigation structures and then tested to see how well their structures held up to waves. Then they made revisions to their design and retested their structures. In the picture above, students are using the wave maker to test the effectiveness of their design.
An Amazing Performance by Room 111 in the Winter Show! I was so impressed by their resiliency and work ethic throughout the show process. Special thanks to Ms. Branch, Ms. Schmittle and Ms. Koreman for their many hours of planning and preparation that go into making a great show!
Boiling water freezes immediately
Congratulations to Claire Dawson, Olive Tinucci, Alessia Olson, and Gabe Weyer for representing our school with poise and excellence at the Network 2 Regional STEM Exhibition at Truman College on January 25, 2019!
This week 6th graders used a landform model in order to create their own topographic maps and analyze the data.
