Hands on Science

Students are working like scientists and engineers! They are experimenting and collecting data on the function of a plant stem. We have celery soaking in food colored water. We will be observing changes to the celery this week. Mrs. O'Brien also shared her document camera with us so we could zoom in and see the stem of a geranium plant which may help us with evidence to support our claims about their function.

Students have been working on learning coding with Ms. S. (computer integration teacher). She challenged students to build a bridge to span 6 inches using only marshmallows and toothpicks. Teams were given a chance to plan their designs, 30 minutes to build and test their bridge, and completed the challenge with seeing how many pennies their bridge could hold. One team was able to build a bridge that held over 50 pennies!