Middle School science classes explored electricity by measuring the voltage generated across various fruits and vegetables, using a copper penny and a galvanized steel nail for the electrodes.
Mrs. Kimble's Middle School literature class practiced "sketchnoting." A multisensory approach to taking notes, sketchnoting incorporates drawings along with words.
Middle School students prepared the soil and planted a vegetable garden on Springer's campus. They will water it daily, and enjoy fresh produce later this fall.
Middle School students visited Matthew 25 Ministries where they helped sort donated clothing and viewed displays of conditions in some of the less industrialized countries the ministry helps.
Middle School science classes harvested the kale they had planted at the start of the school year and made kale chips. While they worked, they enjoyed mint lemonade made from mint they had grown in the classroom.
Middle School science classes experienced the division of chromosomes in a cell in a hands-on way by creating chromosomes of clay and crossing and dividing them as they would during cell meiosis.