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• 1:17 5th Grade Nonfiction Articles Gallery Walk

  In preparation for our next novel, Amal Unbound, 5th grade students read various nonfiction articles about Pakistan history & culture. Students then worked in partners to create informational posters for our class gallery walk to teach each other about what they learned. Students then were able to write down questions or comments that they had based on the posters.

  Uploaded Feb 07, 2020 by Katherine Cooper
• 00:08 A Visit to Mr Kovach's science lab
  Uploaded Mar 02, 2023 by LeiAnna Carrasco
• 1:41 Creature Exhibits

  Latin is a natural language like any other and the 3rd graders are breathing life into it by using Latin sentences to communicate about mythological creatures. This is the first task where they have really started to produce sentences and they did a heroic job meeting the challenge!

  Uploaded May 01, 2020 by Jennifer Mitten
• 00:13 Friday Craft

  Yesterday students read All About Kites, a nonfiction book about kites. This afternoon, they designed and created kites of their own.

  Uploaded Mar 03, 2023 by LeiAnna Carrasco
• 00:15 Measurement Outdoors

  Students had to find 5 objects outdoors to measure with their meter sticks.

  Uploaded Dec 02, 2022 by LeiAnna Carrasco
• 00:21 Science of Snot

  Students have been learning about the human immune system and how it functions to help us fight off pathogens. Mucus is an important part of that system so students created a model of mucus and analyzed how accurate a model it was.

  Uploaded Mar 09, 2020 by Ryan Cherry
• 3:31 Week 22: February 14-18, 2022

  This week's slideshow update includes: 6th graders active exploring their Earth's Resources SEPUP Geology Unit with 2 lab activities, one learning how remote seismic technology is used to locate underground resources deposits, and the other using chemical reactions to extract copper from malachite ore samples; 7th grade class played a Jeopardy Game to review for their SEPUP Unit Exam on "Reproduction"; 8th graders did some research on the reliability of online articles under the topics of "Selective Breeding" and "Genetically Modified Organisms" as they conclude their SEPUP Unit exploring "Evolution".
  
  I also added a couple of shots to show how amazing our Decatur Junior High Students are: a couple of 6th graders went above and beyond an article assignment from a recent Science World Magazine article on "Cells" by making their own cell models including a very detailed diorama model and a student who chose to knit his cell model and another 6th grader brought in their own mineral samples from home to share with classmates; and a couple of 8th graders who volunteered as lab. assistants to clean up SEPUP trays from the 6th grade experiment on extracting copper from ore samples.
  
  Thanks for checking in with us this week:)

  Uploaded Feb 21, 2022 by Gerard Kovach
• 3:17 Week 25: March 7-11, 2022

  This week's slideshow highlights: All JHS classes having fun exploring dry ice, thus making curricular connections to NGSS standards around "States of Matter" and the role of energy transfer in phase changes of matter; 6th graders investigating the age of Earth by learning how past geologic events impacted life on Earth and the development of fossil fuels as part of their SEPUP Unit on "Earth's Resources"; 7th graders began their next SEPUP Unit on "Evolution" with a couple of labs, including one where they collected data on a scientific model of how bacteria can develop antibiotic resistance when patients do not take antibiotics as prescribed, and another lab where they simulated a bird species that feeds on worms that have specific traits for color and the role of environment on natural selection; a photo of one of our students being surprised by his fire fighter dad during our most recent school-wide fire drill; and 8th graders began an inquiry unit on "Energy" through a series of cooperative group"Energy Stations" investigations where the emphasis is on learning all about "Energy Transformations" via physics and/or chemistry. Thank you for checking in with us this week!

  Uploaded Mar 12, 2022 by Gerard Kovach
• 2:24 Week 31: April 18-22, 2002

  This week's slideshow highlights: Students in each class from 6th - 8th grades celebrated Earth Day on Friday by picking from a variety of seeds to plant and take home, from all kinds of annual and perennial flowers to herbs and vegetables; students in 7th and 8th grade just watched the documentary film, Kiss the Ground, which teaches about success stories from around the world where famers and ordinary citizens are using plants to help sequester carbon from the atmosphere and promote healthy regeneration of soil; a few pics show some of our 7th & 8th grade students preparing our worm compost bin so our JHS scientists can compete with Mr. Cherry's Intermediate grades scientists to see who can get their worms to convert the most food wastes into compost--students will record data over the next several weeks of how much food wastes they are also reducing from instead going into landfills; 6th graders began their integrated Science and Maker Space Inquiry unit on the anchoring phenomena--How can we create a fully renewable energy society? by working together exploring various forms of energy and energy transformations via a series of 6 hands-on energy stations. Thank you for checking in with us this week:)

  Uploaded Apr 24, 2022 by Gerard Kovach
• 00:36 4th grade Simple System Solar Panel Lab Featured

  Students were given several items to use to create a simple system as we learn about systems and they were able to create simple electrical systems that used solar panels to power a fan!

  Uploaded Jan 17, 2022 by Ryan Cherry