This week is the last week for the eighth graders to finalize their building prototype designs.  The thinking and learning I am witnessing has been incredible.  These students have really spent a lot of time designing and testing, redesigning and retesting in order to create the best design they can.  Next week they will take their prototypes to UWM for final testing and feedback from a group of professors.  They will video their simulations so make sure to ask about it!!

Seventh graders have been immersed in exploring cells using a microscope.  Their study of the importance of cells began with them viewing paramecium, euglena, amoeba, onion skin and elodea.  This stimulated loads of questions which they categorized and used to develop the driving question for this unit–Why are cells important to life?  Their next step is to begin to explore cell structure and function.  Ask them what they are learning.