6th+Grade+Science+Year+News+Article

By Kaitlyn Murphy From biomes, to earth, then to chemistry, students in Council Bluffs, Iowa's schools are on the ball in science.
 * 6th Grade Science Year**

Students in Mrs. Preston's 6th grade class at Hoover Elementary School in Council Bluffs, Iowa are zooming through their science units. With Middle School on the horizon, they have a lot to do before the time actually comes.

At the begining of the year the students started off studying different biomes. A biome is a community of ecosystems with similar climates and organisms. For this, they were each put in groups and given a biome to study then create a "movie" out of it by recording thier voices and then adding pictures. After which they were then assassed on.

For thier next unit they studied about earth's interior and exterior. Interior is within and exterior is outside. They were again put in groups and told to create a model of earth,exposing it's interior and exterior."It was very constructive and fun,but it took forever!" said 6th grader Shelbi Sheppard. After they were finished they were then assassed on their performance and the model.

The science unit they are currently in is chemistry. Chemistry consists of composition, structure, and, "to blow things up". Also in chemistry the students study matter, mass, and weight. Matter is (as Mrs. Preston says) the "stuff" of the universe, it makes up everything. Mass is the amout of matter you have in you, and weight is just the gravitional pull on an object.

Now the year is coming to and end, but with middle school nearing, these students are certainly...ready.