"A Day at the Wax Museum"

                                                    "A Day at the Wax Museum"

Quest students have been learning all about inventions, and Influential People of the Past. Throughout this Unit of study, each student chose a person from the past that they wanted to learn more about. Upon choosing their person, the students researched many facts about them. They even learned how to create a Google Slide that told about their person of interest. The students dressed up like their character and the Quest class put on a show called, 

"A Day at the Wax Museum". It was a huge success and the students did an outstanding job!!! 

Post Card Project

We have been learning all about cool places around the world and famous landmarks. Throughout this unit of study, we have asked family and friends that live in other places to send us postcards. Here are some of the awesome places we received postcards from.

NASA

Quest students loved going to the Infinity Center at Stennis Space Center. We toured many new and neat exhibits, and learned all about space and science. We were very privileged to have guest speaker, Ronnie Rigney, talk with our class and tell us about the Saturn V rocket engine. The students have really loved learning about Space this year in Quest.

Galaxy in a Bottle

Galaxy in a Bottle 

Anti-Gravity S.T.E.M. Experiment

2nd grade Quest students made galaxies in a bottle and experienced the awesomeness of what it looks like in our galaxy called, "The Milky Way." This S.T.E.M. experiment took students on a journey that allowed them to see the forces of gravity and how they work with certain liquids. The materials used to make our galaxies in a bottle are the following…..

* Clear bottle with ¼ filled with water

* Baby oil or cooking oil - fill bottle ⅔ full (leave space at top)

* Food coloring (We used dark blue)

* Glitter (That was our favorite part)

Then you are ready to cap your bottle and shake it around to see what happens to the different liquids and glitter inside. We had a blast!!

Quest Star Party

We had such a wonderful time at our Quest Star Party tonight. Thank you to everyone who came out to get an up close look at Saturn and Jupiter!! A big thank you to Dr. John Grant and Bill Nix for setting up their amazing telescopes and sharing their wealth of knowledge with us. What a memorable experience.  

Mission Space Projects 

Our Quest students are having a blast as they learn about our solar system and everything that is in it. 

Look at all of these amazing projects that our students have been working on and bringing into class to share with everyone. We would like to also give a big shout out to the wonderful families that help make these projects possible. 

Dash and Dot Robotics 

We are so excited to work with Dash and Dot from Wonder Workshop. Dash and Dot are robots that connect with blockly and java script on the tablet. Students were amazed at how Dash and Dot worked and couldn't wait to give them a try. Students have learned how to code and use computer programming to send the robots to their destination. Here are a few pictures from our first run with Dash and Dot. We look forward to many more missions.