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Hey Everyone!
 
   Thanks for your support during my paternity leave!  I am back and wanted to share with you some exciting news.  Recently students from Decatur participated in the Regional Science Fair and 2 of the projects were the highest scoring 6th grade projects in the fair.  Congrats to Alexis Keener and Will McCaffrey and Aditya Nanda!  Also a big shout out to Lily Meegoda and Jay Huang whose projects got excellence ratings!  Great job to you all!
Congrats to Rm 111 for their 2nd place finish at the Decatur Winterfest class competition!  Really proud of you all for your positive attitudes, teamwork, and effort.  Go Pink!

Decatur Science Fair 2019

Students competed in the 2019 Decatur Science and Engineering Fair. We had an amazing team of judges from Argonne Lab, Northeastern Illinois University, and various science related companies from engineering to product design.

Sending Binary code messages

Students trying to send a binary code message across the room to their partners using different strategies

Science Dec 2-6

This week students completed a soil sample analysis lab, extracted copper from malachite ore (the copper is what makes the blue/green solution that color) and worked on coding our robot for our Lego League Club

5th grade Energy Flow Presentation

Students created models of the flow of energy in a given ecosystem and explained how energy cycled through the system.

Science for the week of November 18-23

A series of pictures from our 6th grade remote sensing lab, 5th grade energy flow models and Lego League coding and robot constructing.

Straw Reed Lab

Students created their own straw reeds in order to explore how sounds can be different from each other. We noticed that the shorter the straw the higher the pitch of the reed.

Photos from the week of Oct 7-11

This week 4th graders worked on seeing how particle collisions work using pennies and how sound waves work through homemade telephones. 5th graders created an energy pyramid to help them understand the interconnectedness of ecosystems and continued creating an ecosystem in their terrariums.