MOST RECENT VIDEOS

• 00:12 Jr High Oktoberfest!

  The Decatur Jr High participates in an annual competition where homerooms dress as a particular color and play games and solve puzzles with and against one another.

  Uploaded Nov 04, 2022 by Andrew Brennan
• 00:17 Word Families!

  The students did a scoot around the room to build words with word families: -at,-ay, -all, -ake, -eat and -ad.

  Uploaded Nov 04, 2022 by LeiAnna Carrasco
• 00:35 Mystery Box Lab Featured

  Students engaged in an investigation with a Mystery Box where they considered what animals need to find their food and imagined that what was in the box was their food. They looked inside of the box to see that it was not possible to see if there is no light and then talked with their groups to decide what changes could be made to allow someone to see inside the box and came to the conclusion that light is needed to see inside the box.

  Uploaded Nov 03, 2022 by Ryan Cherry
• 00:08 Human Traits Bar Graphs Featured

  Students went around the room and responded for themselves on nine different traits including things like eye color, hair color, hair texture, dimples, etc. From their responses the class created bar graphs to analyze the data within our classroom and show the variations within a trait.

  Uploaded Nov 03, 2022 by Ryan Cherry
• 00:28 Our 8th Grade Buddies!

  These past couple weeks we have been writing our buddies and we finally got to meet them!!!

  Uploaded Oct 29, 2022
• 1:33 Jogathon!!!

  I was able to make this awesome video. Thank you for making this such a special day!!!

  Uploaded Oct 29, 2022
• 2:22 Decatur Jogathon 2022-23

  6th and 7th grade students put their hearts into running tons of laps and having some fun!
  
  
  
  
  
  

  Uploaded Oct 29, 2022 by Marianne Sharping
• 2:46 Week 10 of 2022-23| 5th - 8th Grade Science

  This week's slideshow highlights: 8th graders taking a classroom movement break to a song they learned in 1st grade; 8th grade explored physics by further investigating Newton's Laws of Motion; all students spent time on Thursday & Friday of this week continuing to explore Experimental Design to get ready for STEM Fair (7th & 8th grades it is a review as they are already working on their chosen inquiry projects--and for 5th & 6th grades it is an introduction as they will conduct small cooperative group experiments with more guidance from Mr. K). The explorations involved using microscopy to collect and record observations of various aquatic organisms (Daphnia, Planaria, Paramecium, Amoeba, and Euglena). Students were really excited to see them interacting, responding to environmental stimuli such as light, and in some cases, giving birth and consuming other species. The next step is to take the students' own questions so that they can design experiments of their own, such as the amazing regenerative properties of Planaria, while they apply the "Elements of Scientific Experimental Design", which goes to the higher order thinking NGSS Science & Engineering Practices. Thank you for checking in with us this week:)
  

  Uploaded Oct 29, 2022 by Gerard Kovach
• 00:45 Jog-a-Thon | Fall Craft

  It was a fun week! Check out this short video of the Jog-a-Thon and our Fall Craft.

  Uploaded Oct 28, 2022 by Erin Cole
• 00:13 8th Grade Crab Soccer

  With Oktoberfest right around the corner, the middle schoolers have been practicing their Crab Soccer skills before the big showdown next week!

  Uploaded Oct 28, 2022