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NAMS SCIENCE CLUB
STUDENTS HELP TO
CREATE HERB GARDEN
AT THEIR SCHOOL
even members of the
Neil Armstrong Middle
School Science Club
stayed after school to help
Food Service Director Joe
Consolmagno create four
pallet gardens to grow fresh
herbs that will enhance the
meals served in the NAMS
cafeteria in the fall.
Mr. Consolmagno made the
pallets and the students filled
them with dirt and planted
seeds to grow oregano, thyme,
sage, rosemary, cilantro, parsley,
basil and chives.
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The students also said they
would stop by the pallet garden
over the summer to help water
the plants. Participating in
this great hands-on learning
experience that will benefit all
NAMS students were Haley Bell,
Sarah Yarroll, Riley Smith, D.J.
Meyers, Allison Scarlett, Willow
Hernishin and Jacob Toth.
The students are sponsored
by Science Club Advisor Wendy
Hirzel.
Thanks to Evey Hardware for
donating the seeds!
(Top) These NAMS
Science Club students
were excited to stay after
school to help create and
plant herb gardens to
provide fresh herbs for
cafeteria meals in the fall.
(Left) Once the pallets
were filled with dirt, the
students enjoyed making
rows and planting the
seeds.
FIFTH GRADERS MAKE ENVIRONMENTAL BIOMES
s the culminating activity to their unit on
environmental studies, fifth grade students on
Team Ranger made life-size biome murals that their
teachers hung in the hallways outside their classrooms.
Some of the environments the students studied included
a Temperate Forest in the Appalachian Mountains, an African
Savannah, a Myanmar Rainforest, an Indonesian Tropical
Rainforest, three different Oceans and a Coral Reef.
The students learned about the food chain in each of these
environments, and
identified which
animals were predators
and which were prey,
which were carnivores
and which were
omnivores.
The students worked
in teams to create the
murals for their biome,
These students did a fantastic job creating this
and each student
had to research three
organisms, create a
life-size depiction of
their organisms using
colored paper, and
create a Google doc
paragraph that was
placed on the mural,
Here are some students with their colorful coral
next to each of the
reef biome.
organisms.
The murals were fantastic, depicting animals such as a bear,
bobcat, fox, birds, tiger, giraffe, elephant, lion and whales. One of
the murals contained a 3-