Eighth-grade physical science students in Mr. Dave Bronson's classes recently participated in a contest to see whose newspaper structure could hold the most weight.
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Eighth-grade physical science students in Mr. Dave Bronson’s classes recently participated in a contest to see whose newspaper structure could hold the most weight. The contest was part of a class lesson on Newton’s second law of motion, which equates to force equals mass times acceleration.
The rules were pretty simple – students could use only a Sunday edition newspaper and as much tape as they wanted to create their structure, knowing that the more tape and paper they used, the more weight their structure would need to hold. The idea was to build the lightest structure to hold the most weight.
In the end, Jamie M. and Carlie S. came out on top – their structure held 158 pounds of books and had a strength ratio of 743 times the structure’s own weight.
Basketball Team Visits Briar Hill
On Nov. 22, the seventh- and eighth-grade boys basketball team elected to skip practice and spend some time with residents at Briar Hill Health Care instead. Supervised by their coaches Shaun Spence and Gregg Sadler, the boys enjoyed talking to the residents and playing board and card games with them. Everyone had a great time.
