At Home in the
Lower School
Science Lab It’s just a regular Tuesday in the halls of Legacy Christian Academy, but in the Lower School Science Lab, it sounds as if the children are . . . making popcorn? And that means one thing: Lori Walsh is teaching fourth-graders Newton’s third law of motion — “For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.” Each student places an effervescent
Few schools have a science lab just for
on laboratory experiences that would
tab on top of a spring inside of a film
their primary school, but Legacy wanted
reinforce the content taught in class.
cannister, pours water inside, replaces
to provide its youngest students with
We all saw a need for students to arrive
an experiential science experience.
in Middle School with an increased
“Before we opened the K–4 Science Lab,”
readiness to retain and apply what they
said Cheryl Guthmann, eighth-grade
had learned in elementary science. We
the lid, and waits for the reaction. What follows is a symphony of pops as the kids marvel at the pieces flying apart from
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science teacher, “classroom teachers
wanted to foster a continued love for
the carbon dioxide buildup inside the
were challenged with space and time
science as more than words and pictures
cannisters.
constraints to implement enough hands-
on a page.”
LEGACY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY
