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Creating a Simple Electrical System that fails
Students were working with solar panels, wires, a generator and fan and needed to make a failing system to better understand how a system functions as a network on individual parts.
Uploaded Mar 02, 2020 by Ryan Cherry -
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First 2 weeks of 2021-2022
We spent the first 2 weeks of Science Class establishing class agreements/norms and participated in community-building activities to set the stage for cooperative learning in Science class. We also got to see our class pet lizards again, and were introduced to our new baby slider turtle! Please check out the pics in the slideshow!
Uploaded Sep 10, 2021 by Gerard Kovach -
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Food Truck Unit Video
Decatur Jr. Middle School students recently created their own food trucks including cost analysis, menus, advertisement, business plan, messaging, etc. They did an amazing job! Check it out!
Uploaded May 22, 2020 by Ryan Cherry -
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Makerspace: Sep 8-11
Congratulations and thank you to students and families for completing Week 1 of Remote Learning! Students have made great adjustments in our new learning environment. 4th-7th grade in Makerspace began building community by creating Play Doh creations of facts about their lives. It was great to see students' creativity come to life as we learned more about each other. Students began taking risks as they aimed to build the tallest tower they could using Play Doh and no more than 20 toothpicks. It was fascinating to see students being open to share when their towers fell but continue to persevere in starting a new design; sometimes even creating a tower inspired by another students' design.
Uploaded Sep 14, 2020 -
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Mystery Box Lab
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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 -
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Reading Groups!
Students worked in their reading groups this week to find the problem, solution, high point and series of events in a fiction text.
Uploaded Dec 02, 2022 by LeiAnna Carrasco -
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Weeks 1-3 Science Class
In weeks 1-2, the class spent time "Building Community" by each student creating and presenting their own "Getting to Know You Presentations". I presented first so students could get to know me as a new teacher to Decatur, and then students took turns presenting to the class. Community Building is essential as students will be expected to work in smaller teams from time to time this year in Science class, not to mention, scientists and engineers work in teams in the real world! The "Getting to Know You Presentations" were also a fun way to learn more about and celebrate the rich cultural diversity within our classroom and our Decatur Community! Starting in week 2, students were introduced to their Scholastic Science World Magazine online accounts. We read some articles together, and students learned how to analyze and interpret the articles through writing in a format known as "3-2-1", where they state 3 important things learned, 2 questions that come to their minds, and then take their own curiosity/inquiry further by researching one of their 2 questions, sharing what they learned from that research, and also sharing the link/resource to their research. These are practices scientists and engineers do everyday, especially when working in international teams like scientists from around the world collaborating on finding a vaccine for Coronavirus. Lastly, in week 3 we began watching together the documentary film, "The History of the World in 2 Hours". By viewing the film together, students are able to see how we will be exploring Science this year from many different lenses, or disciplines, such as biology, chemistry, astronomy, physics, earth science, and engineering. The film also highlights important Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) Disciplinary Core Ideas that all middle school students investigate deeper in Science class.
Uploaded Sep 27, 2020 by Gerard Kovach -
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3rd Science Celery Investigation
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Students created an investigation using celery, food coloring and water to test how inherited traits can be impacted by the environment. In groups, students planned out different experiments to conduct that had only one variable to increase the validity of the results
Uploaded Feb 18, 2023 by Ryan Cherry - 00:08 A Visit to Mr Kovach's science lab Uploaded Mar 02, 2023 by LeiAnna Carrasco
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Creature Exhibits
Latin is a natural language like any other and the 3rd graders are breathing life into it by using Latin sentences to communicate about mythological creatures. This is the first task where they have really started to produce sentences and they did a heroic job meeting the challenge!
Uploaded May 01, 2020 by Jennifer Mitten