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• 1:42 Week 26: March 14-18, 2022

  This week's slideshow highlights: 6th graders exploring the history of Earth by setting up a human timeline of important geologic events and how they impacted the rise and fall of life on Earth going back to at least 3.5 billion years ago; 6th graders selecting from a drawing new class helper positions as Decatur JHS students like to help out and take more ownership in our Science classroom; 7th graders exploring natural selection and evolution (see video below); and 8th graders began inquiry investigations into "Energy Transformations" by rotating to various hands-on stations to explore how energy and matter interact and transform such as: solar energy to electric and then mechanical; chemical energy to thermal; chemical energy to electrical and then mechanical/kinetic; etc. Thank you for stopping in this week:)

  Uploaded Mar 19, 2022 by Gerard Kovach
• 3:09 Week 9: October 25-29, 2021

  This week's slideshow has pics of: 6th grade class collaboratively exploring global water surface temperature distribution data in order to further their inquiry of weather and climate; 8th grade class setting up an experiment to investigate the role of environmental factors in affecting the traits that will be observed in nicotiana plant offspring as part of their inquiry unit on Reproduction and Genetics; and 7th grade continuing to sharpen their microscopy skills by observing various multicellular organisms' cells up close as part of their inquiry unit, "From Cells to Organisms".

  Uploaded Oct 31, 2021 by Gerard Kovach
• 00:36 WK4 | Social Identity Jigsaw

  8th graders worked in small groups to analyze social identity narratives to reflect on the stories we want to tell about who we are and why identity matters.

  Uploaded Sep 24, 2021 by Marianne Sharping
• 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
• 00:26 3rd grade Science Gathering Data- Wolves and Inheriting Traits Featured

  In their unit on Inheritance and traits focused around several wolfpacks, groups reviewed and discussed data from the Wolf Family Data Cards and the informational texts, The Code and The Handbook of Traits and recorded their information on a graphic organizer.

  Uploaded Jan 13, 2023 by Ryan Cherry
• 00:58 5th Grade

  The 5th grade worked on a Formative Assessment Lesson, where they look at a problem, share their individual solutions, and critique the reasoning of each other's work; and then have a chance to improve their original answer to the problem.

  Uploaded Feb 21, 2020 by Andrew Brennan
• 2:54 Decatur Data Project - 5th Grade

  5th grade worked on a "Dear Data Project" inspired data visualization.

  Uploaded May 06, 2021 by Andrew Brennan
• 00:06 Exploring Friction and Tension through music and science
  Uploaded Mar 11, 2022 by LeiAnna Carrasco
• 2:12 Food Trucks...YUMMM! JMS Integrated Unit
  Uploaded May 18, 2020 by Katherine Cooper
• 00:12 Personal Project Presentations!

  We have been working hard for the last 4 weeks getting these ready! We have started to present our presentations and will continue all this week!!!

  Uploaded Jun 01, 2021