Lost Egypt

The 5th graders were able to do hands on activites to learn. They built a pyramid, put the shrads back together to make a pot, identified kinds of bones in an archaeologist dig, stood on a humungous map of Egypt, and did many interatctive screens. Then they read about and saw artifacts from Egypt. They were able to see Annie, named for an anonymous mummy and her coffin. She was found floating in the Nile River and mummified. They were able to read about he steps to creating a mummy.

Camel Photo Shots

WHO Channel 13 News

Some of the 5th graders were able to watch Meteorologist Brett McIntyre give his weather forecast. Other lucky ones were even on the news with him during a brief weather clip.

More Hands-On Activites at SCI

Hands-On Activites at SCI

The 5th graders used their minds and hands while they made and launched rockets, built lego cars and raced them, padded an egg to be dropped, built with dominos, built an arch, and created dams with water to make power.

Fire and Ice

The 5th graders were entertained , intrigued, and educated by the Fire and Ice program which explored extremely cold and hot temperatues. They say a solid, dry ice, turn from a solid to a vapor which is sublimation. A penny became bendable from extreme cold. Then a balloon's air molecules contracted so much, it looked like there wasn't any air in the balloon when it got extremely cold, but it expanded back out to regular balloon size when the air warmed up inside of it to room temperature. In the picture, the students are seeing an explosion made with hydrogen in a ballon. When salt was added it created color similiar to fireworks.

Creating Mummies

Electricity Activities

The 5th graders spent several science class periods doing electricity activities. They completed electric circuits and added switches to open and close the circuits. Then they tested objects to see if they were conductors or insulators. Plus, they made series and parallel circuits. These scientists were able to see first hand that the lights were dimmer in a series circuit than in a parallel circuit. Also if one light went out, they all did in a series circuit, but not in a parallel circuit.

Human Body Final Projects

In December the students worked in small groups to create a life size human body for their final body systems project. They had to draw and label the organs in the major body systems. Also, each student researched an organ that they were interested in learning more about. Then they created a "Wanted" poster that included its picture and description.

Motion Experiments in Science

The fifth graders have been doing many experiments in science to learn about motion and force. They have had to calculate the speed of a car by measuring the distance it traveled divided by the time it took in seconds. They conducted experiments to find out how friction, mass, and force affect the distance cars travel down a ramp. They were able to see Newton's 3rd law in action when they made rockets by attaching a balloon to a straw that went through a string. For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.