This week's slideshow highlights: 8th grade students continuing their SEPUP explorations of "Force & Motion" by collecting, analyzing, and interpreting their lab groups' experimental data on how gravitational potential energy affects the speed and kinetic energy transfer of a motor vehicle upon impact in a collision; 7th grade class continued their SEPUP investigations in their "From Cells to Organisms" biology unit through an interactive simulation of the spread of an infectious disease. The students used deductive reasoning to determine the source and action of the infectious disease by analyzing the class data sets; 6th grade continued their inquiry into their SEPUP unit "Geologic Processes" though their first lab investigation of how Earth's composition between sedimentary rock derived from sand vs clay interacts with ground water aquifers, thus helping them gather more evidence to support their claims around the issue of "Where is the safest place to story nuclear wastes?"; 5th grade moved into their first SEPUP unit "Solar System & Beyond"; and all classes spent some class time on Friday using their "Earned Game Time Points" to continue to strengthen classroom community by playing board games with their classmates. Thank you for checking in with us this week:)