Saturday, April 23, 2016

WEST MIDDLE SCHOOL shakes like an earthquake

On April 18 the eight-grade Earth Science program at West Middle School did a lab on simulations of an earthquake. The lab was called “Shake and Roll.”

The students had to use jelly gum drops and toothpicks. Students had to build a two-story building structured to withhold an earthquake. Teachers find how long their structure withheld the results of an earthquake.

Some structures lasted only one or two seconds, and other structures students built withheld the earthquake for a minute and 41 seconds.

Students had a great experience doing the lab shake and roll. Mrs. Pasek-Colley, Mrs. Gibson and Mrs. Bochenrk helped each eighth-grade classroom out.







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