Teacher Talk: Ms. Finn and Junior High Science

Welcome to our first "Teacher Talk" post on the St. Ethelreda web site.
Our Teacher Talk series will feature St. Ethelreda faculty and students in action with their own photos and descriptions of projects going on at our school.
Enjoy!

The first Teacher Talk post is by Ms. Finn and her Junior High science classes.

Highlights from junior high science classes:

An edible science activity! As the eighth grade class began a new unit on planet
Earth’s processes, students used their homemade PBJ sandwiches to simulate three
types of faults involved with earthquakes: normal faults, reverse faults and strike-slip
faults. Students then learned about seismic waves and the use of seismograph stations
to identify the epicenter of an earthquake.

Meanwhile, in the sixth and seventh grade classes, students became detectives for
a day as they conducted a fingerprint investigation to analyze their arches, loops and
whorls. They concluded that the majority of students have loop patterns, and their data
was found to be consistent with statistics from the general population.

Click on the photo set below to see these experiments as they happened.

Teacher Talk Photo Set

Thank you to Ms. Finn and her junior high science classes!