Science Teachers:

​Gina Allen - 8th Grade Science and Health - gallen@bccu2.org
Jackie Blumer - 6th and 7th Grade Science - jblumer@bccu2.org
Josh Cox - 6th, 7th, and 8th Grade Science - jcox@bccu2.org
Amanda Goldsboro - 7th Grade Science - agoldsboro@bccu2.org
Erika Knolhoff - 7th Grade Science and Health - eknolhoff@bccu2.org
Terry Swalley - 6th, 7th, and 8th Grade Science - tswalley@bccu2.org

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Mrs. Allen's 8th grade science classes are off and running for the 2019-20 school year!  Students recently an engineering unit with several labs labs.  Most recently, constructed a ball launcher following specific criteria and constraints.  The students with the farthest distance and fewest points used for materials were Dustin Rehkemper and Nick Robison.  One was building a model car - the challenge was to build the car that traveled the farthest after being rolled down a ramp.  The students had criteria and constraints for their cars decided upon by the class.  The fourth hour class, who all created cars that were usable examples, is pictured below.  Another recent lab was a design challenge experiment!  Students were challenged to design a helmet model and test it to see whether it met the criteria given to the class.  Most students discovered that they needed to refine their solutions and retest their helmets.  A few of the more successful models are pictured below!  

​Students in Mrs. Goldsboro's 7th grade science class began the year with a roller coaster project!  Students were challenged to build roller coasters to observe potential and kinetic energy within a system.  The slideshow above has pictures of some groups working on their projects!

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The 2018-19 8th grade science classes completed a model car challenge!  Each class decided upon a list of criteria and constraints and build a model that met all of those requirements.  To develop their models, students had to think about limitations such as the materials available, the time they had to complete the car, and scientific principles that would affect the available solutions.  Some of the projects are pictured in the slideshow below.  Great job to everyone!

Students in Mrs. Blumer's 6th-7th Grade Science classes were very busy during the 2018-19 school year designing and conducting several experiments.  Please watch the video above to see what has been happening. 

 7th graders have designed and built Roller Coasters, studied energy transformation with a rollback, designed, built and test Heat Shields for rocket return capsule, compared the density of objects Lab, studied the properties of Oobleck and viscosity tubes, compared physical and chemical changes with a Chemical Reaction Lab, designed a Cold Pack , turned Milk into Plastic, shared their knowledge with 1st graders during our 1st Grade Science Show, and designed, built, and tested hovercrafts.  

​6th Grade labs include: Apparent Motion of the Sun Lab, Moon Phases Lab, Design Challenge: Rocket, Rover, Spacesuit, Colony, Parallax Lab - Used to determine the distance of stars, Lunar Geology Lab, Communication labs:  Can we Talk, Puzzled, Challenger Learning Center Field Trip, Established a timeline for Earth's history, Ice Core Sampling Lab, Hour of Code - Computer Science Lab, Rock Lab, and Researched and modeled Geologic Feature's future.