Although the COVID-19 pandemic has put a pause on this year’s Science Fair, ACS 7th and 8th grade students have been working on some exciting science projects that are now on display in the hallway outside Mrs. Melody’s first floor science classroom. The 7th graders have been studying physiology and human anatomy and the 8th graders have been learning about the periodic table.
Mrs. Melody’s 7th graders made digital posters for their unit on fossils. Creation science websites were used to unravel some of the mystery around fossils. Information on trace and body fossils was gathered and published on posters using Prezi. Did you know dinosaur bones of Hadrosaurus foulkii were discovered in Haddonfield, NJ in 1858? This became the world’s first full skeleton of a dinosaur ever found!
The 8th graders worked on a project that merged their writing skills with their unit on the elements, for a project called “Element Superhero.” Students wrote a story about the adventures of their Superhero Element, such as aluminum, cobalt, and helios, and highlighted how their superhero’s special abilities were related to the properties of the element. Scientific data about the element and an illustration of their caped crusader was displayed on posters.
