Science and Grade 6 activities

     Students in Grades 6 and 7 are wrapping up their SciencEXPO experiments and working on getting their data into Google Sheets. This allows our researchers to make data tables and graphs for their research papers. Plus, it is a great skill to have moving forward!

Table 1	Weekly Plant growth (cm)
Plant Number	12/17	12/26	1/2	1/9	1/16
1	2.0	4.0	5.0	8.0	12.0
2	2.0	6.0	7.0	9.0	12.0
3	2.0	6.0	7.0	8.0	11.0
4	2.0	7.0	9.0	10.0	14.0
5	2.0	3.0	3.0	6.0	9.0
6	2.0	5.0	9.0	14.0	17.0

     Grade 6 celebrated Martin Luther King, Jr.'s and Cornelia Connelly's birthdays with the rest of the HCA community on January 15th during a prayer service hosted by the 4th Grade. It was a moving ceremony filled with songs, shared dreams, and history.

Tom giving the 6th Grade dream for the kids at Sonshine Academy

to the 4th Grade prayer leaders.

Grade 7 has been exploring cell growth and the stages of the cell cycle, primarily mitosis. Here they are viewing onion root tip specimens and identifying IPMAT stages. Not sure what IPMAT is? Ask a member of the Class of 2021 for the answer!