MOST RECENT VIDEOS

• 1:27 Week of May 23-27, 2022

  This week slideshow depicts: 6th graders working on their integrated Maker-Space + Science Unit culminating project, where they were busy researching their cooperative groups' energy research topics, assembling their electronic circuit quiz game boards, and then beginning the design and construction of their renewable energy models that they will share with other classes at our first ever Decatur Energy Fair, which will be on Monday, June 6th; 7th graders wrapped up their SEPUP unit exploring evolution with a series of investigations into how homologous skeletal structures and comparative embryology are used by scientists to support Darwin's theory of evolution; and 8th grade wrapped up a unit exploring the physics of engineering and design of safer automobiles.
  
  This week: 6th grade will have special guest speakers in class on Thursday, as a team of Northwestern University's Engineers Without Borders Chapter will present to both 6th grade classes how they utilize STEM skills to help people around the world as part of EWB, as well as their own passions for STEM in general along with what it's like to be a college student at NU.
  
  7th grade and 8th grade will end the year with a Frog Dissection Investigation, which allows them to apply knowledge and skills that they studied within the biological sciences by exploring similar skills used by STEM career professionals such as medical doctors and surgeons, veterinarians, forensic scientists, ecologists, etc.

  Uploaded May 30, 2022 by Gerard Kovach
• 1:59 5th grade Amal Unbound Dance Performance Featured
  Uploaded May 28, 2022 by Ryan Cherry
• 1:28 5th grade Amal Unbound Dance Performances Featured

  Students created dances based upon their reading of the novel, Amal Unbound.

  Uploaded May 28, 2022 by Ryan Cherry
• 00:13 5th grade Science Measuring Terrariums Featured

  Students measured and analyzed what has happened in their terrariums so far and why some are thriving and some are not.

  Uploaded May 28, 2022 by Ryan Cherry
• 00:20 3rd grade Bank Project Featured

  Students created different projects from posters to skits to demonstrate their understanding of the role of banks in a community. The presentations were really fun to watch!

  Uploaded May 26, 2022 by Ryan Cherry
• 00:13 4th grade Straw Reeds Lab Featured

  Students have been learning about sound waves and investigating what makes sounds different like volume and pitch. To see this an action students used straws to create reeds to could make different sounds based upon the way they were crafted. We analyzed the sounds and identified what we were hearing.

  Uploaded May 26, 2022 by Ryan Cherry
• 00:15 Line graph or Line plot

  Today students were given a data chart to organize into a line plot or line graph. With their groups, they discussed and displayed their data into a graph.

  Uploaded May 26, 2022 by LeiAnna Carrasco
• 00:36 Partner Reading

  We are working hard annotating our new chapter book with our partners!!

  Uploaded May 24, 2022
• 00:17 Hand Collision Model Featured

  Students have been learning about sound waves and how energy travels in all forms of waves. We created this model to help us understand how particles in a waves collide and as result transfer energy to the next particle and on and on.

  Uploaded May 21, 2022 by Ryan Cherry
• 3:10 May 16-20,2022

  This week's slideshow highlights: 6th grade students collaboratively exploring Energy in their integrated Maker-Space + Science Inquiry Unit--this week they worked on and tested outside their redesigns of their solar cars and they also began investigating wind turbines' energy conversions by cooperatively assembling and collecting data on electrical energy output from their turbine models; 7th grade continued with their SEPUP Unit exploring Evolution with a couple of lab investigations where they learned about geologic drill cores, fossils, and trace fossils and inferences that can be drawn from those pieces of evidence; 8th grade students continued exploring their SEPUP Unit on "How can we make safer cars?" where they investigated how balanced and unbalanced forces impact a car's direction, speed, and acceleration; there are a couple of pics of 7th and 8th graders demonstrating the NGSS Science & Engineering Practices of "Obtaining, Evaluating, & Communicating Information", "Analyzing & Interpreting Data", and "Engaging in Argument from Evidence" by sharing their ideas from their Science Notebooks in front of their class; and lastly, there are a couple of pics of some students viewing microscopic soil mites collected from our class worm compost bin--if you look closely at the last pic you can even see an offspring mite on top of a parent mite. Thank you for checking in with us this week:)

  Uploaded May 21, 2022 by Gerard Kovach