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I. BIG SMILES AND ALL, Nicole Swoards (12) poses for the camera with a
lower schooler while working on fheir aclivily.
II. HARD AT WORK, Brigilte Blanco (12) uses her arts and craft skills to help
build a brain cap.
III. IN TOUCH WITH THE WILD, a lower schooler shows off her tiger mask.
IV. WHAT A GROUP! Ms. Santarelli's Biology AP class gels together with the
lower schoolers for a picture.
V. GIVING INSTRUCTION, Ally Burnstein (12) explains the lesson of the day
to a class of first graders.
VI. TEAM WORK! Sara Shmueli (12) pairs up with a first grader to help him
create an animal mask.

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fter weeks of meticulous endangered species. The day came to
A planning, the day had finally a close when the biology class came

in to create brain caps. The students
come for the lower schoolers
Science
experience
to
discovering the different hemispheres
Day. Several activities had got to learn how their brains work,
been planned for the youngins to and lobes that make them who they are.
experiment with every area of science. The day was also full of fun-
Students built cars to learn filled outdoor activities. There was
p
about physics. “THE KIDS GOT A a cotton candy I
The seniors station, and the jl
were divided kids ran around
into groups FEEL OF WHAT IT and played with
of five lower their cars, animal
schoolers and WAS LIKE TO LIVE IN masks, and make-
using straws, believe brains. All
balloons, and THE WILD” together, the day
plates, they was a huge success.
helped the kids build race cars. At The seniors got to give back a little of
the end of the period, the groups raced what they have learned throughout
the cars. As the day moved along, the the years in their science classes. In
environmental science classes came in the years to come, PC Science Day will
to craft animal masks. The kids got a hopefully become a tradition, ready
feel for what it was like to live in the to inspire lower schoolers to pursue
wild, with an informative lesson about science in their future endeavors.

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