On Feb. 21, COSI came to Ledgemont Elementary School to teach students in kindergarten through sixth grade about the weather.
COSI Weather Education
On Feb. 21, COSI came to Ledgemont Elementary School to teach students in kindergarten through sixth grade about the weather. With the help of several volunteer Berkshire High School students enrolled in upper-level science classes running hands-on activity stations, the elementary students experienced how weather works.
They started the day with a building-wide assembly lead by a COSI educator at which they created a thunderstorm and set the tone for the day’s activities. Later, students had 35-45 minutes to explore eight different hands-on stations to learn about the ins and outs of how weather works. Stations included: Weather Instruments, Weather in a Vacuum, A Bellowing Wind, Prediction Puzzler, Canister Cloud, Tornado Tubes, Measuring the Wind and Dicey Situations.
Students had fun and learned as they predicted weather, created clouds, vacuums and “the perfect storm.”
Thank you to COSI and the high school students who volunteered their time to make the program a success.
Berkshire Information and Dates
- Upcoming PRIME community presentations are: March 5 – Claridon Township Trustee Mtg at Claridon Town Hall 6 p.m.; March 14 – Burton Public Library, 6:30 p.m.; March 20 – Montville Trustee Meeting at Montville Community Center, 7 p.m.; and April 3 – Troy Trustee Meeting at Troy Community House, 7 p.m.
- Juniors have started their third fundraiser of the year to help bankroll Prom 2018. The Honeybaked Ham fundraiser event runs through March 20. People wishing to purchase a Honeybaked Ham product should contact a member of the junior class or email advisor Mrs. Beitzel-Rowe at tamara.beritzel-rowe@berkshireschools.org to order.
- Josiah Cheung took second place at the Burton-Middlefield Rotary 4-Way Speech Competition.
- Congratulations to the Berkshire PenOhio Team. On Feb. 10, eleven Berkshire High School students competed in creative nonfiction writing for top honors and scholarships at the regional PenOhio writing tournament held at Cuyahoga Community College. PenOhio is a statewide writing league for public, private and parochial students in grades 7-12. Students competed in two divisions: Varsity in grades 11 and 12 and junior varsity in grades 9 and 10.
- Congratulations to the Burton Elementary School “Mathletes.” A Piece of Pi Squared, Algebrainiacs, Number Crunchers and The Vertex were among six teams of fifth- and sixth-graders from Burton Elementary School who participated in a math problem solving tournament organized by The Greater Cleveland Council of Teachers of Mathematics to promote enthusiasm for mathematics and to recognize students for their interest and talents in problem-solving.
