Rain Rain Go Away!

Today we had an enormous amount of rain. It caused much local flooding and some students to not be able to come to school. We plugged on with our science courses. Sixth grade discovered the differences between cinder, shield, and composite volcanoes. While in fifth grade we weighed objects in and out of water. This was helping us figure out buoyant force. Fifth grade created some nice graphs with the information obtained.

Science Fair Winners!

We are so proud of our winners who were able to proceed onto the County Science Fair at McDonald County High School.

Science Fair Photos

We are very greatful to our judges and thank them for their many hours of volunteer work!

Science Fair!!

We had our annual Science Fair on February 26th! All students worked very hard and had great displays. We had three judges rate all fifth and sixth grade projects. After the scores were tallied our top five were as follows:

5th grade:
First: Adam Gregory
Second: Kyla Buchanan
Third: Josh Ross
Fourth: Mechelle Smith and Victoria Fredrickson

6th grade:
First: Kylee Farnum
Second: Jason Cote
Third: Devon Beck
Fourth: Tara Nodine and Juanda Limore

Congratulations!

Science Fair Help

If you are needing help with your child's science fair project help is on the way. During the last week of January and first week of February the afterschool program will be having workshops that will help your child set up, work on and complete their project. Students will have to remember that they need to do the work for the project. They need to come motivated and ready to work!

Tornado Warning

Students learned what temperature and atmospheric conditions were needed to create tornadoes. With the use of convection tubes, ice, hot water and some smoke from a punk we witnessed what happened when two different temperature weather fronts collide. The smoked swirled with the colder air sinking and the warm air rising. Students discussed the current weather conditions and the possibility of tornadic like weather occurring locally. That night Jane was hit with several tornadoes and massive amounts of rain. Our students were able to recognize the current conditions and knew to take precautions. I am happy to see all our students back safely!

Water Cycle Model

Students create a working model of the water cycle. They created stream tables with various soil components. They created a lake and wrapped in plastic wrap. The students placed a cold pack on top of the plastic wrap to simulate the cold condensation of clouds. The lake water evaporated up and down on the land. Students did a good job at keeping good observations.