Maple Grove students, parents experiment with science during monthlong program

Maple Grove Elementary School culminated a month long science experiment program with a special science night with parents and students in kindergarten through third grade.

Students and parents rotated through a series of science experiment tables during the event.

Starting on January 11, students in kindergarten through third grade participated in a four-week program called "Science-in-a-Sack."

Volunteers at each grade level bagged experiment worksheets and some needed materials into plastic bags for the lucky students. Students took a bag home each Monday during the period and conducted the enclosed experiment and returned the completed materials each Friday.

Maple Grove Elementary travels to Rollhaven for science lesson on wheels

A science lesson for the sixth graders in Mr. Chris Hinkley's sixth grade class at Maple Grove Elementary School in late March required the students to lace up some skates.

The purpose of the field trip was to explore force and motion.

In their lesson on wheels students learned about Galileo and Sir Isaac Newton's three laws of motion. With skates on students got a real life lesson in the three laws of motion and five mini-lab stations at the rink.

Later the students skated and played several games that further demonstrated these laws of motion and force.

Students worked out of work books and also got some physical education time on the skates.

A truly fun science lesson.