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• 2:22 Week 3 of 2022-23: JHS Science

  This week's slideshow depicts: 7th grade students taking care of Curtiss, our class pet Bearded Dragon Lizard; 7th grade students cooperatively learning how to operate light microscopes while viewing specimens under various levels of magnification; 8th grade students observing a moth that just hatched from its chrysalis stage of life; and 6th graders working in teams conducting a scavenger hunt to learn how to use all of the text features in their SEPUP textbook for their first unit, "Geologic Processes". Thank you for checking in with us this week:)

  Uploaded Sep 09, 2022 by Gerard Kovach
• 2:15 Week 7: October 12-15

  This week's slide show has pics of: 5th - 7th Graders who are part of our Decatur First Lego League Team having their first team meetings this week; students surprising Ms. Negron with cards that they made for her to celebrate Principal Appreciation Month; a student presenting "This Day in Science History" to his class; 7th grade students working in cooperative groups exploring cell structures and functions; 8th graders digging deeper into Genetics; 6th graders analyzing Climate and Weather data together; and our 2 current herpetologists getting ready to feed our Bearded Dragon Lizards some live crickets!
  Thanks for checking in with our Science Classroom this week!

  Uploaded Oct 15, 2021 by Gerard Kovach
• 1:24 WK8: Reimagining School Lunches

  Here's a taste of the various pieces, from all their core subjects: Math, Reading, Science, and Social Studies, that students brought together in a final business plan for how they would reimagine school lunches with food trucks.

  Uploaded May 24, 2020 by Marianne Sharping
• 00:15 3rd grade Holiday activities Featured

  We wrapped up the week with some fun seasonal themed activities like winter bingo, a winter escape room of a series of puzzles, and a snowflake number review activity.

  Uploaded Dec 23, 2022 by Ryan Cherry
• 00:40 3rd Grade Social Studies Illinois Employers Scoot Featured

  Students explored data about major employers in 6 different Illinois cities in this scoot activity.

  Uploaded Mar 29, 2022 by Ryan Cherry
• 00:56 4th Cranberry Lab Featured

  Students explored whether or not cranberries float in water through an investigation.

  Uploaded Dec 04, 2022 by Ryan Cherry
• 00:50 4th grade Simple Systems Lab Featured

  Students created their own simple systems using solar panels, alligator clips, a motor and fan and a light source to make the fan turn.
  

  Uploaded Mar 12, 2023 by Ryan Cherry
• 00:17 Chromatography Lab 5th Science Featured
  Uploaded Jan 22, 2022 by Ryan Cherry
• 00:15 Minds at Work

  Students worked together using limited materials to build a structure that had to stand on it's own.

  Uploaded Feb 18, 2022 by LeiAnna Carrasco
• 00:16 Social Studies| Identity Map

  I cannot wait to look over your students' identity maps. In order to get along with others, they must first know themselves. They reflected and wrote about their interests, things they would change in society and more.

  Uploaded Mar 02, 2023 by LeiAnna Carrasco