Today was an academically packed day, focusing on the theme of Halloween and NV Day. After reading about the history of rootbeer and how it is made, students used their reading skills to decypher the rootbeer recipe from the reading and made rootbeer in bulk. As the dry ice carbonated the beverage, we learned all about the science of dry ice. Next, math and science were combined and pumpkins were used for estimation, measurement, mass, volume, metric conversion, and density. The final density of their pumpkins revealed how much of the pumpkin was submerged under water when it was placed in water. After lunch students read their "spooky" stories in the dark around a campfire pit in the middle of the classroom. Finally, our guest speaker, Joe Bones (skeleton borrowed from UNR), lectured about the skeletal system. The last our of learnings focused on finding out what percent of our body length is our femur (about 25% by the way). The Nevada Day celebration ended our wonderful day!
