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• 2:54 6th Grade Winter Imagery

  6th graders chose a winter picture and used imagery and figurative language to write a caption.

  Uploaded Jan 08, 2021 by Katherine Cooper
• 00:15 Earth Day Composting Posters Featured

  Check out the progress students are making on their composting posters that educate other students about the

  Uploaded Apr 23, 2022 by Ryan Cherry
• 00:20 Music Composition Brainstorm

  Here, the students are working in their music group to brainstorm ways they can compose their music for their final.

  Uploaded May 20, 2022 by LeiAnna Carrasco
• 00:46 Science Dec 2-6

  This week students completed a soil sample analysis lab, extracted copper from malachite ore (the copper is what makes the blue/green solution that color) and worked on coding our robot for our Lego League Club

  Uploaded Dec 09, 2019 by Ryan Cherry
• 00:42 Science E Learning Autonomous Cars and Deep Sea Creatures

  Students have been learning about Autonomous Cars and Deep Sea Exploration and created these models.

  Uploaded May 01, 2020 by Ryan Cherry
• 00:13 Science|Comparing Climates

  Here's a short clip from students' partner reading in science time this week.

  Uploaded Feb 04, 2022 by LeiAnna Carrasco
• 2:27 Special Tribute to Ms. Mendoza

  5th grade class made some personal cards for Ms. Mendoza to celebrate her time at Decatur and wish her the BEST in her new journey at Chicago's Field Museum! Thank you Ms. Mendoza, we will miss you and wish you all the best, and we look forward to seeing you again at future trips to The Field Museum!

  Uploaded Jan 21, 2023 by Gerard Kovach
• 00:18 Terrarium Photos version 2 Featured

  Here are pictures of how the students' terrariums have changed after only a few weeks since we planted the grass and alfalfa.

  Uploaded Apr 21, 2022 by Ryan Cherry
• 2:26 Week 15: Dec. 13-17, 2021

  This week's slideshow depicts: 8th graders conducting a simulation of Natural Selection of bird beak physical traits; 6th graders conducting an investigation into the evolution of the chemical composition of Earth's atmosphere over the past 4.5 billion years; 7th grade fun class photo on our playground that they included in holiday greeting cards they made for each Decatur staff member; and an end to our last school day of the year 2020 with some time spent on SEL community-strengthening activities such as Kahoot review games of class Science content or fun competitive board games!
  
  Happy Holidays and New Year to all of our amazing Decatur JHS Students and Families and I look forward to seeing everyone again on January 3rd of 2022!

  Uploaded Dec 19, 2021 by Gerard Kovach
• 2:00 Week 6: Oct. 4 - Oct. 8

  This week's slideshow has some images of: 8th graders learning microscopy skills so that they can better understand the microscopic scale of cells and cell nuclei as they continue exploring heredity and genetics in their Reproduction inquiry unit; 7th graders conducting a cooperative lab experiment on cellular respiration where they used Bromothymol Blue indicator solution to gather evidence of cellular respiration in yeast cells which were fed either glucose or starch; and our class aquatic zoologists taking good care of our classroom aquatic ecosystem.
  
  Thank you for checking in this week and please make sure to ask your child for more details of what they explored in class this week!

  Uploaded Oct 08, 2021 by Gerard Kovach