SJHS Staff Writer
This year at SJHS, science enrichment classes have taken learning about science to a whole new level. Mrs. Kelli Manwaring has been given the task of teaching the science enrichment class.
The main objective of the science enrichment class is to broaden the students understanding of science, and since there is no state core for this class it is very open to things like egg drops and bottle rockets. The class has learned about the solar system, the human body, and many other cool projects.
The students shot off bottle rockets, teaching them about air pressure and how space shuttles work. Then on to things about astronauts, like an astronaut egg drop involving eggs. The egg drop required the students to safely protect their astronaut (one large egg) as he reentered the atmosphere (from the school roof). If the egg cracked, too bad for the astronaut, thus teaching the students how space missions are achieved.
Seventh grader Cooper Fullmer shows off the rocket he made for Science Enrichment.Another fun project that the class did was to do physical exercise such as push-ups, sit-ups, and pull-ups etc. to find out their muscular capacities thus beginning the study of the human body during which they dissolved the calcium off of animal bones leading to their discovery of how rubbery bones are.
There are three periods of Science enrichment, sixth seventh and eighth. This semester, and seventh and eighth periods in the upcoming semester. It lasts for 45 minutes for two terms or one semester, before the class switches and the new group of students continues for the next semester. The elective science enrichment class is worth .5 of a credit.
