Exploring the World of Science
by Mr. Ash
November 17, 2005
SIXTH GRADE SCIENCE
Twenty eager young sixth graders are learning all about animals and plants. There is a small zoo in our classroom. We have two iguanas named Bob and Godzilla. Godzilla's name is well deserved (he is huge.) We also have four goldfish, two turtles, and a caterpillar. We are gaining two water turtles next week, and we have cages for gerbils and hamsters as soon as we get the funds for them. The animals are surrounded by everything from cacti and Aloe-Vera plants to flowering vines and a few plants we don't even know the name of.
Four parakeets sing to us daily. We recently found out, thanks to Ashley Kearn's science fair project, that there are two females and two males. The males are in one cage and females in another. However, we are going to try to put them together in the spring to see if they will mate.
SEVENTH GRADE SCIENCE
The seventh grade science class has been very busy this week. We just recently finished our yearly science fair. The science fair was quite interesting this year. Now we are back to the books, learning how motion, forces, and energy work together to make our lives easier. I think our class is very enthused about how light and sound will help with our lives. - Cyndi Carson
EIGHTH GRADE SCIENCE
Our 8th graders are learning all about chemical building blocks and chemical reactions. We have navigated through the periodic table of elements, discovered what makes up an atom, and learned how chemicals bond together to make different compounds. Each class goes through a series of five textbooks and we are on our second. Other subjects we will be exploring this year are: Environmental Science, Cells and Heredity, and Human Biology and Health.
NINTH GRADE SCIENCE
Freshmen science is challenging. Currently we are learning all about sound and light. We have been studying electromagnetic waves and mechanical waves. Our first nine weeks we spent some time on Newton's laws, momentum, work and energy, gravity, projectile motion, and heat transfer. In the second quarter, we have already covered electricity and magnetism, and are about to venture into the study of radioactivity and nuclear fusion/fission.
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Science Fair 2005
