Exploring Worms at the Nature Museum

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. 

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! 

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.