Students learned about raptors, food webs, constellations and other topics at Cedar Wood Elementary School’s second annual Science Day, held June 7.
This year, the school cafeteria made special “science” themed sack lunches for the students to enjoy in place of the usual hot lunch.
The day is broken into rotation segments where students go to different classrooms to enjoy a wide range of curriculum-based presentations and activities aimed at their grade level, including presentations by Jackson High School students.
Presentations and activities ranged from kindergartners learning about raptors and seeing a young bald eagle at close range to third graders learning about food webs and fifth graders learning about constellations.
There were 46 presenters with 26 different presentations. Each presentation was given multiple times for a total of 98 presentations for the day. There was also a morning assembly for fourth graders on geology and an afternoon assembly for the kindergarten through third grade students on invention and creativity.
There was much support from the science teachers and students from Jackson High School. Twenty-six juniors and seniors from AP Physics and Botany/Zoology courses participated in Science Day as presenters.
The Jackson students created nine different class presentations to share with the Cedar Wood students.
Many of the Jackson students and the presenter with Sarvey Wildlife Center previously attended Cedar Wood as students, so Cedar Wood alumni were teaching the next generation of alumni.
Tiffany Gregg, a Cedar Wood parent, organized and orchestrated the event for the second year.
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