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Senior Science Club
Senior Science Club is for 7th and 8th graders. It meets once a week on Thursday from 2:50-3:50p.m. The club does many hands on activities that involve scientific principles. Mrs. Widmaier is the moderator.
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Senior Science Club Update
7th grade science club took the CTA train downtown to the Northwestern Medical School Simulation Lab. The students were guests of Dr. Vozenelik and staff. We found and identified human organs by using a MRI. Then the students learned how to administer CPR, use a defibrillator, and insert a tube into the trachea to provide a breathing apparatus. The students learned about pulse rates, blood pressure, and heart beats. They also learned how to tie surgical sutures. After a lunch of Gino's East Pizza we returned to SPC via the train.
Click here for a web gallery of this great experience!
(Click on a picture to enlarge the image.)
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Senior Science also conducted two successful launches of an Estes rocket. The first launch was with an A engine and we recovered the rocket. The second launch was with a more powerful C engine and we lost the rocket even though the parachute deployed.
Senior Science Club made bird houses this Spring as well.
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Previous Field Trips and Activities:
Senior Science Club went to the Museum of Science and Industry. They participated in several science demonstrations. The students built a structure in the architecture lab and tested its durability during an earthquake and tornado. All structures survived except one!! See photos below:
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Senior Science had fun with Twinkie Science. They made 8 hypotheses about the durability of Twinkies and then tested their hypotheses. They tested whether a Twinkie can conduct current, survive a ten foot drop, has intelligence, will physically burn, will float in water, or will survive a solubility test. It was discovered that Twinkies are unbelievably durable. They are a good insulator; they float; they stay intact after a drop; they have no intelligence; and they disintegrate in water! Fun was had by all!!!
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Senior Science Club experienced Newton's First Law of Motion using eggs. Resting objects prefer to stay motionless. Four eggs were balanced on 4 paper towel rolls, then placed on top of a flat surface that was placed on 4 glasses of water. A broom was used as an energy source to push the flat surface away from the glasses of water. The eggs fell into the glasses. Messy but fun!
Science Club enters data for GLOBE (Global Learning Through Observation to Better the Environment.) They are following strict protocals in entering data about tree budbursts. Every week they examine a tree on the St. Paul of the Cross campus that they chose to observe. Cloud cover, ground temperature, and air temperature data are taken. Then the students study the tree branch tips to see the progression of leaf budbursts. Scientists use this information to study the effect of climate change on the environment.
Click here to go to go to the GLOBE Program Website
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