PBL Skate Park

Students worked in groups and were given the task to evaluate the current skate park in Gallatin and to create one new design.  Students presented their ideas and design to a panel of judges.  Below are some of the pictures taken along the way.

Speed and Velocity

One term we learned was centripetal.  Here a student demonstrates this with a bucket of water.  Luckily no one got wet!

Transverse/Longitudinal Waves

We used a huge slinky and a spring to learn/demonstrate parts of a wave both transverse and longitudinal.

This is what happened to our giant spring when one student used it.  Not to say any names........

Teaching the Rock Cycle

 After we learned a fictitious story from "my weekend" where students learned the rock cycle, they were then grouped and were asked to teach someone else.  Below is a few of our pictures.

7th Grade Carnival!

Thank you to all of you who were able to help out with Penny Wars.  We raised over $12,000!  Much of this goes to purchase new technology for our school.  We were able to get 6 sets of CPS clickers (the kids love them).    Below are a few pictures from our carnival day, including the UGLIEST and SCARIEST Lady Gaga (Coach Carey) I have EVER seen.... A BET is a BET!...

Scientific Tools and Measurement

Students are working to find mass, volume, density as well as many other questions they came up with.  They also gave a short presentation on their findings from a mini-lab in class.  Winning posters from each class will be posted as well laminated and hung up in our classroom.

Welcome new 7th grade students and parents!

Below is our class pictures.  We took one serious one and one goofy one.  We will have many fun learning experiences throughout our year.  Photos from class of what we are learning about will be posted here.  Short video clips will also be posted here so please add this site to your favorites to check periodically.