Spring Connections 2017
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EDUCATION<br />
Our Seventh Grade worked<br />
with Science teacher Mark<br />
Bell on a project made<br />
possible by a grant by<br />
AMGEN. This molecular<br />
biology curriculum is<br />
geared toward high-school<br />
aged students, and uses<br />
professional scientific<br />
equipment to allow for<br />
hands-on learning. Among<br />
the experiments was a<br />
lesson using gel<br />
electrophoresis to verify<br />
recombinant plasmid! The<br />
students recorded and<br />
analyzed the data, and<br />
created a presentation of<br />
their findings!<br />
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Why Learning<br />
Is Always Fun<br />
At TCS<br />
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The Fifth Grade combined their STEM project with their<br />
Kindergarten buddies. They designed roller coasters from<br />
found materials, keeping in mind the concepts of gravity,<br />
energy, and inertia, and allowed their buddies to test the<br />
results with marbles.<br />
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In Second Grade, the students<br />
experienced a living Life Cycle<br />
lesson. Each student observed a<br />
mealworm larvae over several<br />
weeks. They named their “friend”,<br />
created a habitat, wrote down<br />
their daily observations, and<br />
observed their metamorphosis into<br />
pupas.
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