
It's been "all hands on deck" in the 7th grade science classes at McKinley Middle School this year! Students have participated in a number of fun and educational hands-on activities including:
- Testing the importance of safety goggles by observing chemical splashes on egg whites (pictured)
- Measuring liquid volume to make a rainbow
- Measuring distance and calculating area of object around the classroom
- Measuring mass with a triple-beam-balance
- Studying Newton’s laws with an egg drop challenge
- Measuring temperature hot to cold
- Creating paper plate cell models
- Participating in an escape room all about metric measurement
- Looking at cells under a microscope
- Building a working model of the human hand
- Learning to check heart rate after exercising
- Dissecting frogs
- Testing reaction times using our senses while exploring the nervous system
- Measuring potential energy of falling objects into sand
- Calculating speed of cars down a ramp
- Building a mug to test the best insulators
- Participating in an escape room about Net forces
- Graphing motion after a wheelbarrow race outside
- Studying inertia with dominoes
- Looking at relationships between force, mass, and acceleration by hitting a ball across the floor
- Creating balloon rockets to study action/reaction forces