MOST RECENT VIDEOS

• 00:12 Balance Activity

  Today in science we experimented with balance and unbalanced forces. We did this back to back activity to have a physical reference for what happens when two forces are equally exerted on one another.

  Uploaded Mar 25, 2022 by LeiAnna Carrasco
• 00:20 Feeling much birthday love from my students!
  Uploaded Mar 21, 2022 by Katherine Cooper
• 00:31 Our graphing project!

  This is 100% student choice. They picked their topic, created a poster to collect data, and then created graphs.

  Uploaded Mar 21, 2022
• 1:42 Week 26: March 14-18, 2022

  This week's slideshow highlights: 6th graders exploring the history of Earth by setting up a human timeline of important geologic events and how they impacted the rise and fall of life on Earth going back to at least 3.5 billion years ago; 6th graders selecting from a drawing new class helper positions as Decatur JHS students like to help out and take more ownership in our Science classroom; 7th graders exploring natural selection and evolution (see video below); and 8th graders began inquiry investigations into "Energy Transformations" by rotating to various hands-on stations to explore how energy and matter interact and transform such as: solar energy to electric and then mechanical; chemical energy to thermal; chemical energy to electrical and then mechanical/kinetic; etc. Thank you for stopping in this week:)

  Uploaded Mar 19, 2022 by Gerard Kovach
• 00:30 A Fun Hands-on Exploration of Natural Selection in Science Class

  As part of their new SEPUP Life Science Unit on Evolution, the 7th grade class was able to connect back to their previous unit on Reproduction by investigating the role of variation in how natural selection works over time. They conducted a hands-on simulation of birds with various beak traits feeding on "Wild Loops". The students learned how natural selection works to favor certain traits that are better suited to an organism's ability to acquire food in order to have a better chance of surviving long enough to reproduce offspring, thus showing the evolution of the various bird beak traits over many generations.

  Uploaded Mar 19, 2022 by Gerard Kovach
• 00:04 Galileo Experiment

  Galileo dropped weights off of the Leaning Tower of Pisa, showing that gravity causes objects of different masses to fall with the same acceleration. This student dropped two bottles of different weight, and noticed they hit the ground at the same time.

  Uploaded Mar 18, 2022 by LeiAnna Carrasco
• 00:28 Stability Test Lab 5th Science Featured

  Students tested different substances to see how well they could serve as emulsifiers and keep oil and water mixed. Lecithin (the yellow powder) served as the best emulsifier.

  Uploaded Mar 17, 2022 by Ryan Cherry
• 3:17 Week 25: March 7-11, 2022

  This week's slideshow highlights: All JHS classes having fun exploring dry ice, thus making curricular connections to NGSS standards around "States of Matter" and the role of energy transfer in phase changes of matter; 6th graders investigating the age of Earth by learning how past geologic events impacted life on Earth and the development of fossil fuels as part of their SEPUP Unit on "Earth's Resources"; 7th graders began their next SEPUP Unit on "Evolution" with a couple of labs, including one where they collected data on a scientific model of how bacteria can develop antibiotic resistance when patients do not take antibiotics as prescribed, and another lab where they simulated a bird species that feeds on worms that have specific traits for color and the role of environment on natural selection; a photo of one of our students being surprised by his fire fighter dad during our most recent school-wide fire drill; and 8th graders began an inquiry unit on "Energy" through a series of cooperative group"Energy Stations" investigations where the emphasis is on learning all about "Energy Transformations" via physics and/or chemistry. Thank you for checking in with us this week!

  Uploaded Mar 12, 2022 by Gerard Kovach
• 00:29 Fun Investigations with Dry Ice!

  This video shows our 7th Grade Class having fun cooperatively investigating dry ice as part of a recent review of "States of Matter".

  Uploaded Mar 12, 2022 by Gerard Kovach
• 00:06 Exploring Friction and Tension through music and science
  Uploaded Mar 11, 2022 by LeiAnna Carrasco