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• 3:54 Commutative Property of Multiplication
  Uploaded Oct 02, 2020 by Katie Andorka
• 1:35 Week 19: Jan. 24-27, 2022

  This week highlights: 8th grade investigating with the skills of paleontologists and geologists examining fossils and stratigraphic drill core samples as part of their unit exploring Evolution; an 8th grade student hand feeding some meal worms to our class pet bearded dragon, "Curtiss"; 6th graders investigating examples of natural resources as they began their new inquiry unit into the impact of increasing human population on the Earth's natural resource deposits, as well as a couple of 6th graders doing some independent microscopy inquiry on their own time.

  Uploaded Jan 29, 2022 by Gerard Kovach
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  Uploaded Sep 30, 2023 by Renie Petropoulos
• 1:44 Decatur First Lego League Goes to State!

  Congratulations to our Decatur First Lego League Team! The 2 x 4's represented Decatur with such grace at the Illinois State First Lego League Robotics competition at Elgin Community College. The team won a special award known as "The Breakthrough Award" and more than quadrupled their Robotics score from where they started out 2 years ago! The future looks bright for Decatur First Lego League!

  Uploaded Jan 22, 2022 by Gerard Kovach
• 00:13 K Science

  Kindergarten had fun exploring our Chapter 2 Question
  How do we make a pinball move as far as we want?

  Uploaded Jan 29, 2021 by Sheryl Slechta
• 2:24 New Year Update

  Please check out this video which highlights ways we are continually working to strengthen our classroom community so that each student has multiple ways of sharing their own voice, ideas, and questions about science with the class despite the extra challenges of remote learning! I am so amazed by our Decatur students' resilience during these challenging times of this ongoing pandemic!
  
  We also continue to work on strengthening classroom community by celebrating at the end of each week with some fun trivia games such as Kahoot and Gimkit, both of which could easily be played at home for some added family fun!

  Uploaded Feb 18, 2021 by Gerard Kovach
• 6:50 3rd Grade - Week 2 - Days 1 and 2

  Please watch this instructional video that goes along with the tasks for days 1 and 2.

  Uploaded Mar 23, 2020
• 2:18 Day 2 of Decatur Classical Summer CSI STEM Camp

  Today the students: did a quick getting to know you activity to learn more about each other and build community; They then were introduced to the crime scene, where the cookies were stolen and the culprit left a coded note cut out of newspaper clippings. The note was in Spanish so the students had to translate the note first which they learned that the cookies are being held ransom by the cookie bandit. They later learned who the 5 primary suspects are: Ms. Mirna and Ms. Marta, out amazing Decatur custodians, as well as Ms. Negron and Ms. Martino, our super administrative team, and last but not least, Ms. Degand! They read together biographies of each of the 5 suspects to look for possible clues. They ended the day conducting thorough documentation of the overall crime scene, which also contained envelopes, with lipstick on them, as well as a white powdery substance. The slideshow also includes a couple of nice group photos of our campers all wearing their camp T-shirts. Thank you for checking in with us:)

  Uploaded Jul 11, 2024 by Gerard Kovach
• 2:07 Week 5: Sept. 27-Oct. 1

  This slideshow has some pics of this week's Science classes: 8th grade learning about genetics and using a coin tossing model to show how traits are passed from parents to offspring; 7th grade learning microscopy skills by viewing unicellular organisms such as bacteria and amoebas with our compound light and digital microscopes; and one of our classroom herpetologists helping to clean the lizard's home ecosystem and a student holding one of the lizards with a lizard hat made by another student :)
  
  Thank you for checking in this week!

  Uploaded Oct 02, 2021 by Gerard Kovach
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  Uploaded Mar 31, 2025 by Gerard Kovach