Eighth Grade

Investigating Muscles

The eighth graders are diving into the complexities of the human body. To enhance their understanding of how muscles work they disected chicken wings and carefully observed the tendons, ligaments, and how the muscles contracted and relaxed.

Posted by Ms. Satkowski 18.Nov.08 Read more

A Hurricane Swept Through 5th Grade

As an end of unit inquiry project, the fifth graders designed and built their own hurricane resistant buildings. The buildings were then tested with the schools leaf blower on high speed and I am glad to say, they all survived.

Posted by Ms. Satkowski 18.Nov.08 Read more

Volcanic Activity

The seventh grade has been studying how volcanoes erupt and the different types of volcanoes. To better understand how they affect the landscape around them the students constructed and then erupted their own volcano.

Posted by Ms. Satkowski 22.Oct.08 Read more

The 8th graders have been learning all about the atmosphere so far this year. Lately their studies have focused on wind. They constructed anemometers out of K’NEX and plastic cups to measure the wind speed here at school in revolutions per minute. So far there has not been to many windy days to get a good reading, but we all know sooner or later a big storm will come our way!

Posted by Ms. Satkowski 13.Oct.08 Read more

PJAS

The 7th and 8th grade students have now all chosen a topic for their experiment. We will be working very hard over the next couple of months on their experiments for the regional competition on February 21, 2009. For more information about the competition please go to www.pjasix.org

Posted by Ms. Satkowski 13.Oct.08 Read more

7th Grade Earthquake Resistant Buildings

The seventh graders have been very busy brainstorming and constructing their buildings for the earthquake simulator and I am pleased to say that all survived!