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Earthquake Towers

Here are pictures from our Earthquake Tower building! Thanks to Irene Yun for the lesson plan.

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Maddy and Abigail using a triangular base

Millie, Max, and Rosa negotiating the details

Using cross-bracing to strengthen the tower

Elijah, Robby, and Annakai with a unique [...]

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Rutherford Rollers

Welcome back from vacation! Here are pictures of the Rutherford roller activity where students rolled marbles under a board to simulate Rutherford’s gold foil experiment. An object was hidden under the board. When the marble’s rolled underneath, it could roll straight through, bounce off to the side, or bounce straight back. [...]

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Parachutes!

Here are some pictures from our parachute building class.  Each parachute was made from tissue paper, embroidery string, tape, and two large paper clips.  The goal was to make a parachute to maximize the amount of airtime for the parachuter.

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Farm School!

Here’s some pictures from this year’s Farm School.
Enjoy!  We’ll put together a display with more pictures at school this week.
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After two weeks of Farm School expeditions, we’ll be returning to school with a (somewhat) normal schedule! We’ll get started on the Physics unit as soon as we wrap up the Farm School work.
*REMINDER*
Farm school journal are due on FRIDAY.
8th grade Science Friday projects due on FRIDAY.
And here are some pictures from the [...]

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