MOST RECENT VIDEOS

• 00:18 3rd grade moving block lab Featured

  Students were given a series of materials and came up with creative ways to make wood blocks move to help them begin to think about force and motion that will be the focus of our new unit
  

  Uploaded Mar 12, 2023 by Ryan Cherry
• 00:50 4th grade Simple Systems Lab Featured

  Students created their own simple systems using solar panels, alligator clips, a motor and fan and a light source to make the fan turn.
  

  Uploaded Mar 12, 2023 by Ryan Cherry
• 3:51 Week 26 of 2022-23|5th - 8th Grade Science

  This week's slideshow highlights: several pics of students leading parts of science lessons; 7th graders from Room 1011 working together to bring in supplies for the Student Council charity drive; 5th graders celebrating as Mr. Murray made an all school announcement of the charity drive class leaders as they made it up to 3rd place; a pic of a special visit to our Science lab by Mr. Roper's 1st grade class who were shown our class pet lizard, Curtiss, and asking their own inquiry questions to one of our 8th grade herpetologists who takes special care of Curtiss during our breaks from school; 8th graders forming a human chain to simulate the cross linking of polymers as part of their "Chemistry of Materials" SEPUP unit that they just completed; 6th graders playing classroom Jeopardy to review for their final exam on their "Geological Processes" SEPUP unit; and 5th graders each taking on the role of meteorologists forecasting weather as they continued exploring their "Weather & Climate" SEPUP unit. Thank you for checking in with us this week:)

  Uploaded Mar 12, 2023 by Gerard Kovach
• 00:13 Science| Buddy Reading- Frog Models
  Uploaded Mar 09, 2023 by LeiAnna Carrasco
• 3:36 Week 25 of 2022-23| 5th - 8th Grade Science

  This week's slideshow highlights: 8th graders conducting a taste test experiment to see if they can taste the difference between tap water, bottled purified water (taken from a tap at another municipal water supply somewhere), bottled distilled water, and bottled spring water as they have been exploring plastics as part of their "Chemistry of Materials" SEPUP unit; 8th grade also investigated a lab where they crosslinked two polymers the same way chemists do who work to create various plastics as they made a plastic that resembled slime; 7th grade continued exploring genetics; 6th graders explored how natural resources are unevenly distributed around the world due to past geologic events and they performed some in-depth data collection-analysis-interpretation of how ground water aquifers are impacted as well by both natural events and human activity; and 5th grade continued their unit on "Weather & Climate" with a couple of cooperative investigations to learn more about prevailing winds and how they impact global and regional climates; and there is a pic of a rare sighting of the elusive "Leroy the catfish" in our classroom aquatic ecosystem. Thank you for checking in with us this week:)

  Uploaded Mar 05, 2023 by Gerard Kovach
• 00:13 Friday Craft

  Yesterday students read All About Kites, a nonfiction book about kites. This afternoon, they designed and created kites of their own.

  Uploaded Mar 03, 2023 by LeiAnna Carrasco
• 00:08 A Visit to Mr Kovach's science lab
  Uploaded Mar 02, 2023 by LeiAnna Carrasco
• 00:16 Social Studies| Identity Map

  I cannot wait to look over your students' identity maps. In order to get along with others, they must first know themselves. They reflected and wrote about their interests, things they would change in society and more.

  Uploaded Mar 02, 2023 by LeiAnna Carrasco
• 3:22 Week 23 of 2022-23| 5th-8th Grade Science

  This week's slideshow highlights: 8th grade students explored through a lab investigation and computer simulation how atoms and molecules move differently between the states of solid, liquid, and gas depending on thermal energy within a system as part of their "Chemistry of Materials" SEPUP Inquiry unit; 7th grade dug deeper into their "Reproduction" SEPUP unit by investigating how geneticists predict the likely outcomes of alleles of genes passing from parents to offspring through a coin toss model as well as with the use of Punnett squares; 6th grade learned more about the "Rock Cycle" by playing a simulated geology board game where they learned more about the natural causes and effects that drive Earth's rock transformations over time both at the surface and deep below in the mantle between 3 main types--igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks; and 5th grade became teachers as they worked in cooperative groups to create visual teaching lessons for the rest of the class on a lesson about the causes of climate. They learned from each others' lessons through a gallery walk of each groups' visual lessons. Thank you so much for checking in with us this week:)

  Uploaded Feb 24, 2023 by Gerard Kovach
• 00:15 Hungarian Carnival

  We learned about the Hungarian Carnival with Bennett's family! Students learned about their traditions, and why they celebrate -- to scare away winter! Students had fun making masks and shakers to scare winter away!

  Uploaded Feb 24, 2023 by Nina Placido