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• 2:24 Back from Winter Break and Ready for 2021!

  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 Mar 03, 2021 by Gerard Kovach
• 00:39 Creating a nonstandard measuring unit

  Students created nonstandard measuring units using items around the house, let's see what they came up with...

  Uploaded May 08, 2020
• 00:45 Makerspace Sept. 3-13

  During these past two weeks of school, we focused on building our community in Makerspace and getting comfortable with brainstorming new ideas. Students had an opportunity to tinker with material including gems, cork, cups, rocks, pom poms and foam pieces. They chose to work independently, with a partner or their entire whole table. This activity also served as a refresher on how to work/treat materials, how to respect each other at our tables and cleaning procedures.
  
  The creativity with materials was quite impressive. Very few projects were ever truly alike. Students imagined pom poms representing different types of food and creating a sandwich, using the foam pieces as the bun. Others used gems as garden paths, mazes and even water drops in a cup. Even towers made of cups were varied, both in size, shape and decor. Some students stayed limited to table and others chose build from the ground up!

  Uploaded Sep 14, 2019
• 5:54 Relate Addition and Multiplication
  Uploaded Sep 25, 2020 by Katie Andorka
• 3:57 Solve Problems With Area

  What strategies can you use to solve area problems?

  Uploaded Oct 24, 2020 by Katie Andorka
• 2:56 Tired of Winter? Try a family trip to the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum!

  The Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum is located right across the street from The Lincoln Park Zoo and is a great place to go on a quick family trip for our students to extend their understanding of phenomena related to how the Earth is changing due to human-induced global warming and climate change. The museum includes live animals native to our region and numerous displays to show what we as individuals can do to help protect our local natural ecosystems.

  Uploaded Feb 06, 2022 by Gerard Kovach
• 2:56 Tired of Winter? Try and family trip to the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum!

  The Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum is located right across the street from The Lincoln Park Zoo and is a great place to go on a quick family trip for our students to extend their understanding of phenomena related to how the Earth is changing due to human-induced global warming and climate change. The museum includes live animals native to our region and numerous displays to show what we as individuals can do to help protect our local natural ecosystems.

  Uploaded Feb 06, 2022
• 1:10 Video
  Uploaded Mar 19, 2021 by Gerard Kovach
• 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
• 4:06 Week 9 of 2022-23| 5th - 8th Grade Science

  This week's slideshow highlights photos of an experiment that each class performed to test to see where more microbes would be found on surfaces within our Junior High School Annex Wing. The experiment sets the stage for a review of Experimental Design as our 8th and 7th grade classes are in the midst of their STEM Fair Projects having just completed the research phase, and 6th and 5th grade classes are being introduced to Experimental Design. There are also pics of students showing love to Curtiss, our class Bearded Dragon Lizard; several pics of students leading the class in our experiment's data analysis and interpretation; 7th & 8th graders worked on peer reviewing each other's STEM Fair Project Rough Draft Research Literature Reviews; and students also strengthening classroom community by spending their 25 minutes of class "Earned Game Time" points by playing board games or card together. Thank you for checking in with us this week! :)

  Uploaded Oct 23, 2022