Posted Date: 09/30/2020
Despite the cumbersome student facemasks and foggy goggles, Celeste Junior High science teacher, Krystal Lovell, pushes on through the challenges to teach her students science standards through lab stations. To reinforce proper hand washing, students learned the difference between non-washed, sanitized, barely washed and properly washed hands by using bread and mold in the hand washing lab. In another lab, the students were engineering a tower out of noodles and marshmallows and they had to make a big marshmallow rest on top. There are also SCIENCE stations that demonstrate how to (SCIENCE: S-summarize, C-create, I-interpret, E-experiment, N-navigate, C-challenge and E- extend). One of the most popular stations involves an egg experiment where they learn about the cell membrane and how it allows things to move in and out of the cell.