Author: Karen Dux

Energizer’s peer mentoring buddy program is off to a great start this school year! Energizers club prioritizes promoting a drug-free life, community involvement and peer mentoring. As part of efforts towards our organization’s mission, junior high and high school students peer mentor 22 of our local elementary students. Recently the buddies went on a trip to Roca pumpkin farm. We spent the day building relationships while enjoying a beautiful fall day; everyone had a great time. The secondary students did fundraising activities to sponsor the day. We are changing the world, one student at a time!

Mrs. E. Winter’s 7^th grade science class is learning about Populations and Ecosystems! To practice food chains and food webs in an ecosystem, students decorated pumpkins. Students drew assignments for a role: producer, primary consumer, secondary consumer or tertiary consumer and drew an example of that role on their pumpkin. We had beautifully drawn sharks, snails, mice, snakes….. and some not as beautifully decorated too! Once the pumpkins were done, we used arrows to demonstrate how food webs and food chains are constructed. A HUGE thanks to Sue and Norval Stewart for the donation of the pumpkins; we appreciate their commitment to helping provide engaging lessons for our local students!

Mrs. Winter’s seventh grade science students learned about states of matter and basic phase changes this week. To practice phase changes we made liquid nitrogen ice cream! This showed how milk (a liquid) can freeze (a phase change) when it loses heat to the liquid nitrogen ice cream which is a frigid -320*F! The students enjoyed the day.