MOST RECENT VIDEOS

• 00:14 A Short Video of the 6th Grade Solar Grand Prix: Round 1!

  See weekly update video below for more details!

  Uploaded May 14, 2022 by Gerard Kovach
• 2:34 Week of: May 9-13, 2022

  This week's slideshow highlights: 8th grade students investigating the variables of mass and speed on the kinetic energy transfer of vehicles in a collision as part of their SEUPUP Unit exploring "How can we design safer cars?"; 7th graders wrapped up their Sexual Health Education Unit by doing an amazing job of working in groups to present on several local community resources for adolescents; 6th graders were taking advantage of this abnormal midsummer-like weather to conduct some hands-on lab investigations into the workings of "Photovoltaic Cells", along with their first run of the "Solar Car Grand Prix", where each cooperative group first assembled their cars, and for the next race they get to redesign their cars to try and increase performance and speed--this is all part of their integrated Maker-Space & Science Unit exploring "How can we create a fully renewable energy society?"; and last but not least, a shot of our pet Bearded Dragon, Curtiss and some amazing 7th grade zoologists volunteers getting our class pond ecosystem/aquarium ready for some experiments with aquaponics. Thank you for checking in with us this week:)

  Uploaded May 14, 2022 by Gerard Kovach
• 00:36 Dance party!!

  After working so hard on our fractions, novel, and landmarks it’s time to cut loose and show off our sweet dance moves!

  Uploaded May 12, 2022
• 1:43 May 2 -- May 6, 2022

  This week's slideshow highlights: 7th grade students maintaining our new in class worm composting bin--students are learning which foods are best for creating vermi-compost and keeping data of how much mass of food wastes is being kept from being tossed into the garbage and then into landfills; an 8th grade student feeding some horn worms to our class bearded dragon, Curtiss; 8th grade students conducting experiments investigating the variables of speed and mass on energy transfer of gravitational potential energy to kinetic energy during vehicle collisions with our brand new SEPUP physical science curriculum as they explore their unit anchoring phenomenon, "How can we design safer cars?"; 6th grade students conducting an experiment learning about conductors vs insulators used in transferring electricity within electric circuits; 8th grade and 6th grade students cooperatively demonstrating the NGSS Science & Engineering Practice of "Obtaining, Evaluating, and Communicating Information" by presenting their experimental results to their classmates; 7th grade continued with their Sexual Health Education Unit Lessons this week with special emphasis on "Being Up-standers" and "Allies" when confronted with real-life situations of unhealthy influences and discrimination towards others.

  Uploaded May 07, 2022 by Gerard Kovach
• 3:01 2nd grade poetry slam

  We had an amazing time today with her poetry slam! We were able to share our second grade poems with the 6/7 and eighth graders, what a wonderful day!

  Uploaded May 06, 2022
• 00:16 Seeing, Hearing and Responding| Science and Music

  Students listened to a set of musical selections then decided as a group which book (theme or message) they felt was most closely connected to one of the musical selections. Each group shared out and justified their decision by explaining the forces at work in both the musical piece and the read aloud books. Students applied what they learned in an article called' How Energy is Transferred.'

  Uploaded May 04, 2022 by LeiAnna Carrasco
• 00:14 Science| Domino Fun!

  Task: Build a device or system that demonstrates chains reactions!
  1. Ask questions
  2. Write your predictions
  3. Explain your predictions based on the changes you observe when objects collides
  

  Uploaded Apr 27, 2022 by LeiAnna Carrasco
• 00:56 Our Figurative Language Comics

  We are showing our knowledge of simile, metaphors, onomatopoeias, personification, and hyperboles!

  Uploaded Apr 26, 2022
• 2:24 Week 31: April 18-22, 2002

  This week's slideshow highlights: Students in each class from 6th - 8th grades celebrated Earth Day on Friday by picking from a variety of seeds to plant and take home, from all kinds of annual and perennial flowers to herbs and vegetables; students in 7th and 8th grade just watched the documentary film, Kiss the Ground, which teaches about success stories from around the world where famers and ordinary citizens are using plants to help sequester carbon from the atmosphere and promote healthy regeneration of soil; a few pics show some of our 7th & 8th grade students preparing our worm compost bin so our JHS scientists can compete with Mr. Cherry's Intermediate grades scientists to see who can get their worms to convert the most food wastes into compost--students will record data over the next several weeks of how much food wastes they are also reducing from instead going into landfills; 6th graders began their integrated Science and Maker Space Inquiry unit on the anchoring phenomena--How can we create a fully renewable energy society? by working together exploring various forms of energy and energy transformations via a series of 6 hands-on energy stations. Thank you for checking in with us this week:)

  Uploaded Apr 24, 2022 by Gerard Kovach
• 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