Perdido Elementary/Middle School students recently competed in their annual science fair, which is under the direction of Mrs. Jill Jones. Mrs. Jones teaches all of the fifth and sixth graders at Perdido. Using a hands-on scientific approach, students put into practice what they have learned in the classroom. The scientific method is the way in which students are taught to ask and answer scientific questions through making observations and doing experiments. The steps that the students learned and then practiced are:

Ask a question

Do background research

Construct a hypothesis

Test your hypothesis by doing an experiment

Analyze your data and draw a conclusion

Communicate your results

Students competed in various areas of science with everything from; which soil worms prefer to how much salt it would take to make an egg float or using infrared night cameras to check deer patterns to the distance various paper airplanes would fly. Teaching students through the use of hands-on activities that reinforce what is learned in the classroom, has been Student success has been

Winners in each group were:

A group

1st Nicholas Shiver

2nd Cory Kelley

3rd Holly Houdek

4th Zac Johns

B group

1st Alexis Wallace

2nd Christian Woods

3rd Blake Hadley

4th Olivia Trawick

C group

1st Sydney Stewart

2nd Evan Williams

3rd Kelly Wiggins

4th Dagan New

Front row – left to right: Holly Houdek, Alexi Wallace, Cory Kelly, Haley Cloud, Nicholas Shiver, Evan Williams

Back row – left to right: Christian Woods, Blake Hadley, Zac Johns, Kelly Wiggins, Olivia Trawick, Sydney Stewart