Students at Rohan Woods have been very busy in the science lab…
JK
- read Quirkles books Lindy Light, Mary Motion, Nosey Nina, Ollie Oxygen, Pressure Pete, and Quincy Quake
- experimented with ramps and motion, the taste/smell connection, oxygen’s role in fire, high pressure and low pressure when using a straw, and designing an earthquake proof building
SK
- experimented with ways things move
- investigated how force affects motion
- understood the relationship between pushes and pulls and hunted for them within our building
- experimented with how the height of a ramp changes the distance cars will travel
- collected data and created a graph using the car/ramp data
1st
- learned about fossils and did a “fossil dig” to find rocks (cookies) with fossils (chocolate chips) and carefully extracted fossils from the rock
- studied earth layers and created models
- examined the layers of soil and creatures that live in the layers and created model
2nd/3rd
- completed states of matter unit with a quiz
- started study of food chains and examined our pond food chain
- investigated food webs
- winterized seeds we collected for our native prairie
4th
- built paper rockets and launched them…some traveled over 150 feet!
- wrote lab report about the rocket project
- started study of food chains and examined our pond food chain
- investigated food webs
5th
- dissected earthworms
- took quiz over Earth’s resources
- started unit on states of matter
- experimented with potential and kinetic energy, transfer of energy, and the law of conservation of energy
6th
- took quiz over magnet unit
- started chemistry unit
- studied matter, atoms, atomic structure, and the periodic structure
- created models of the atomic structure of different elements
5th Health
- continued study of nutrition
6th
- ended unit on skeletal, muscular, and nervous systems
- started unit on the cardiovascular system