FREEPORT MIDDLE SCHOOL DISECTS OWL PELLETS

HARRISON MIDDLE SCHOOL BUILDS PAPER ROCKETS

With a light wind, the paper rockets soared high in the air.

YARMOUTH MIDDLE SCHOOL MAKES BATTERIES

Students create different kinds of batteries.

BRUNSWICK JUNIOR HIGH LAUNCHES PAPER ROCKETS

Reinforcing the learning of Newton's Laws of Motion, paper rockets were built and launched.

FREEPORT MIDDLE SCHOOL MAKES CAMERA OBSCURAS

Using oatmeal boxes and special lenses the students assembled the cameras and checked them out at the window due to the rain outside. 

PINHOLE CAMERAS AND CAMERA OBSCURA

We explore the properties of light and optics.  We examine what happens when light passes through a very small hole.  We discuss what a lens is and what it does to light, whether it is in your eye or in a camera.  The students then build simple imaging systems (camera obscura) out of oatmeal boxes, lenses, and viewing screens.  These are miniature devices similar to the chambers used by 17th-century artists, such as Johannes Vermeer, as drawing aids. The students are allowed to take their cameras home.

YARMOUTH STUDENTS DISECT OWL PELLETS

EDGECOMB EDDY SCHOOL STUDIES POLYMERS WITH SILLY PUTTY