Welcome to 6th Grade

6th grade kicks off their PBL helping some 1st and 3rd grade students master one of their science standards on solids, liquids, and gases.  In this activity we explored the properties of some different materials - an alka seltzer tablet (solid), that when added to water (liquid), produces a gas that we trapped in a balloon. 

Moving on to the final stop in their unit on cells - essential chemical compounds! The 6th grade used iodine as an indicator to determine which of their samples contained starch (a form of carbohydrate) and which did not. 

The 7th graders played a part in the school’s Titanic Exhibit, on display during Catholic Schools Week. The 1st and 2nd graders worked to gather some information and put together a timeline of events, a map with key locations, and a bar graph comparing  survival rates of different classes of passengers. They presented their findings to the 7th grade, who then worked to add some circuitry to the displays to make them interactiv

7th grade has been hard at work on their PBL - learning the chemistry involved in making and baking bread! This activity involved the reactions of different leaveners - yeast and baking soda.