Category: Education

Mrs. Hybart’s fifth-grade class at Escambia County Middle School participated in a Spaghetti Tower Marshmallow Challenge. This activity is a team-building activity that encourages the design mindset and supports basic engineering principles. The basic idea is that a team is given a handful of supplies to work with – spaghetti, tape, and marshmallows – and given a time limit to build the tallest possible tower that can support a marshmallow.  

Escambia County Middle School’s seventh- and eighth-grade Robotics and Broadcasting students, shown, were treated to a tour of the Hyundai car manufacturing plant in Montgomery last week. This gave the students great insight into potentially lucrative job opportunities post-graduation.  

By GERRI MCDONALD Special to Atmore News Students in fourth and fifth grades at Perdido Elementary School tested their engineering and team building skills during the first week of school. The hands-on activities in both classes required students to work cooperatively to successfully complete the engineering task that was given to them. Fourth graders in Mrs. Paige Coleman’s science class were given the task to move a tennis ball, balanced on…

Ms. Linam’s fifth grade class at Escambia County Middle School participated in a Skittles and M&Ms Probability Experiment. The purpose of this experiment is to introduce the scientific method by having the students hypothesize, count, analyze and conclude which company packs candy more reliably – Skittle or M&Ms. After the experiment the students discussed the results and what caused the results.