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• 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
• 3:05 Fun at Oktoberfest!

  Pics of Decatur JHS having so much friendly competition & FUN at this year's Oktoberfest this past Friday!

  Uploaded Oct 31, 2021 by Gerard Kovach
• 00:08 Human Traits Bar Graphs Featured

  Students went around the room and responded for themselves on nine different traits including things like eye color, hair color, hair texture, dimples, etc. From their responses the class created bar graphs to analyze the data within our classroom and show the variations within a trait.

  Uploaded Nov 03, 2022 by Ryan Cherry
• 00:10 Measuring objects all around us

  This week students used their rulers to find objects that were about 1ft long in our classroom space.

  Uploaded Dec 09, 2022 by LeiAnna Carrasco
• 00:10 Rock, Paper, Scissors..Math!

  Students participated in a game of 'Rock, Paper, Scissors..Math' during a movement break this week.

  Uploaded Jan 21, 2022 by LeiAnna Carrasco
• 00:13 Science| Buddy Reading- Frog Models
  Uploaded Mar 09, 2023 by LeiAnna Carrasco
• 00:33 Tribute Project 4th grade Featured

  Students learned about the legacy of Chadwick Boseman and then created their own tributes to someone who has impacted their life.

  Uploaded Oct 03, 2020 by Ryan Cherry
• 1:02 We Miss Our Students!

  The JMS teachers wanted to send a special message to all of our students, whom we miss VERY MUCH! As Mr. Brennan says at the end, WE ARE HERE FOR YOU!

  Uploaded May 01, 2020 by Marianne Sharping
• 2:29 Week 21 of 2022-23|5th-8th Grade Science

  This week's slideshow highlights: 8th graders exploring how atoms combine for from molecules and compounds as part of their "Chemistry of Materials" SEPUP unit; 7th grade investigating how simple inherited traits are passed from parents to offspring, and then to a 3rd generation via genes; 6th graders began exploring how convection in the Earth's mantle causes tectonic plate movement in the Earth's lithosphere; and 5th grade investigated how thermal energy fluctuations lead to differences in water density, as well as differences in density of salt and fresh water via melting sea ice. They then connected this back to the Earth's conveyor belt of warm and cold ocean currents and how that can impact a location's climate. Lastly, there are some pics of 7th grade students surprising Mr. Murray with cards they made to celebrate and honor all that he does for Decatur as part of National School Counselors Week! There is even a pick of Mr. Murray stopping by to explore chemistry with our 8th grade class:)

  Uploaded Feb 13, 2023 by Gerard Kovach
• 2:34 Week of: May 9-13, 2022

  This week's slideshow highlights: 8th grade students investigating the variables of mass and speed on the kinetic energy transfer of vehicles in a collision as part of their SEUPUP Unit exploring "How can we design safer cars?"; 7th graders wrapped up their Sexual Health Education Unit by doing an amazing job of working in groups to present on several local community resources for adolescents; 6th graders were taking advantage of this abnormal midsummer-like weather to conduct some hands-on lab investigations into the workings of "Photovoltaic Cells", along with their first run of the "Solar Car Grand Prix", where each cooperative group first assembled their cars, and for the next race they get to redesign their cars to try and increase performance and speed--this is all part of their integrated Maker-Space & Science Unit exploring "How can we create a fully renewable energy society?"; and last but not least, a shot of our pet Bearded Dragon, Curtiss and some amazing 7th grade zoologists volunteers getting our class pond ecosystem/aquarium ready for some experiments with aquaponics. Thank you for checking in with us this week:)

  Uploaded May 14, 2022 by Gerard Kovach