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• 00:16 3rd Reference Book Scavenger Hunt Featured

  Students were beginning to learn about traits related to different organisms.

  Uploaded Sep 17, 2022 by Ryan Cherry
• 2:12 Food Truck Unit Video

  Decatur Jr. Middle School students recently created their own food trucks including cost analysis, menus, advertisement, business plan, messaging, etc. They did an amazing job! Check it out!

  Uploaded May 22, 2020 by Ryan Cherry
• 00:34 Race to 100 Game!
  Uploaded Mar 17, 2023 by Nina Placido
• 00:15 Science Globe Exploration

  Students worked together to label on the globe, where it is daytime and nighttime in the world.

  Uploaded Sep 23, 2022 by LeiAnna Carrasco
• 00:19 Science| Modeling Plant and Animal Structures

  Students used their materials to model how a plant or animal's structure can be a defense against predators. They used: clay, a comb, toothpicks, tissue paper, pencil eraser tops and a cup. So fun to see the creativity and inspiration students drew from our science text, Spikes, Spines and Shells: A Handbook of Defenses.

  Uploaded Dec 09, 2022 by LeiAnna Carrasco
• 00:20 The Great Multiplication Scramble

  102 took on the challenge of The Great Multiplication Scramble. Next, they will work with their table groups to complete a life size multiplication chart for our classroom.

  Uploaded Feb 15, 2023 by LeiAnna Carrasco
• 00:17 Walkathon 2019
  Uploaded Nov 09, 2019 by Ryan Cherry
• 3:57 Week 1 of 2022-23: Grades 5 & 6 Science Classes

  For the 1st week back to school, in science class students participated in some community building team challenges to welcome everyone back, welcome our new classmates who are new to Decatur, and set the stage for working in cooperative groups in Science class this year! Each student also completed an Interest Inventory/Survey so that Mr. K can get to know each of them as unique and valuable members of our Science class learning community! Please ask your child all about it and thank you for checking in with us this week:)

  Uploaded Aug 27, 2022 by Gerard Kovach
• 4:12 Week 4 of 2022-23: JHS Science

  This week's slideshow highlights: a special visit from Decatur alumni who stopped by during last Saturday's Decatur Picnic to visit their old friend, our class pet bearded dragon, Curtiss; 5th grade students making observations and asking questions about those mysterious beads that turn colors when they went outside in sunlight; 5th and 6th grade students diving into their first SEPUP Inquiry Units by participating in a group textbook scavenger hunt to learn how to make use of all science textbook features/resources; 6th - 8th grade classes adding their initial inquiry questions to our class "Driving Questions Board"; 8th grade students volunteering to share their analysis responses in front of the class on a lesson on measuring speed; 7th grade students learning how to use compound light microscopes, a stereoscope, and digital microscopes to view microorganisms as part of their SEPUP inquiry unit "From Cells to Organisms; several pics of students hanging out with Curtiss; a few pics of our classroom Lake Michigan aquatic ecosystem with our newly added catfish; and a couple of pics of a Katydid students discovered right outside our school building. Thank you for checking in with us this week:)

  Uploaded Sep 16, 2022 by Gerard Kovach
• 4:06 Week 9 of 2022-23| 5th - 8th Grade Science

  This week's slideshow highlights: All classes participating in an experiment to test to see where in our JHS Annex are there more microbes growing on surfaces as this experiment was a review of Experimental Design for 8th & 7th grade students, and an introduction for 6th & 5th grade students; 8th & 7th grade students worked on peer review of each others' STEM Fair Project Research Literature Review, as they are in the midst of their STEM Fair Inquiry Projects having also written their projects' Purpose Statements; students also spent 25 minutes this week spending their class' "Earned Game Time Points", thus continuing to strengthen classroom community by playing board games, chess, or card games during that time; and last but not least, Mr. K showing off a large-mouthed bass he caught this weekend as a way of encouraging students to spend more time outdoors in this Autumn season enjoying nature. Thank you for checking in with us this week:)

  Uploaded Oct 23, 2022 by Gerard Kovach