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Dobbins students discover the science of reading
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Neighbors | Shaiyla Hakeem .Erin Kilgore prepares for a ride on the hovercraft as a part of the Physics is Fun Day activities. Each grade rotated throughout the day to experience the various science demonstrations.
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Neighbors | Shaiyla Hakeem .Third-graders Alex Rapp (left), Ethan Fergusan and Gia DiGiacomo are visiting the magnetic force station. They pull the cabooses by using magnetic power.
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Neighbors | Shaiyla Hakeem .Dobbins' Galena Lopuchovsky balances two belts on one finger at the defying gravity station. Physics is Fun Day was sponsored by PTO and conducted by PTO volunteers.
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Neighbors | Shaiyla Hakeem .Third-grader Morgan Seckella has just released two metallic balls into the plastic chutes at the changing mechanical energy into heat station. A hole in paper that was placed in the center of the box will be produced from both balls hitting one another at an accelerated rate.
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Neighbors | Shaiyla Hakeem .Nick Havlin (left) and Jeremy Castro try to balance one another's pressure at the station called the big push. Students were to place equal pressure on the scales provided keeping them centered and not moving from side to side.
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Neighbors | Shaiyla Hakeem .Dobbins' Nick Havlin (left) is attempting to pull a tablecloth from under three plates. Maguire Franko observes.
Students at Dobbins experimented with science and reading materials during a school-wide event.
In celebration of Right to Read Week, Dobbins Elementary held an assembly May 11 themed “Experiment With Reading.” The theme encouraged students to read nonfiction items such as newspapers, reports, magazines and science texts.
Mobile ED Production’s, along with Poland’s PTO, led students through 10 hands-on science stations. Each station dealt with some type of science, including hot air convection, sound, electricity and water displacement. First-grader Zack Linert had fun with the hand-on experimental activities.
His favorite was the hovercraft where students sat on a sphere and were raised off the ground by air pressure.
“It was fun!” he said. “You go driving around like you’re in a car.”
Each grade level took turns rotating through the science stations with the aid of PTO volunteers.
Other Right to Read activities included a used book sale, allotted time for daily nonfiction reading and other smaller classroom activities.
“It’s nice to have a reading connection with hands-on activities,” said school Principal Cheryl Borovitcky.