Students Discovering Science Teachers Show, Rather Than Tell, Kids at Ruth Upson Elementary

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Students in Room 36 at Ruth N. Upson Elementary recently

learned how to recycle water.

Next door, another class conducted an experiment on wetlands

and how they help cleanse water.

And on the other side of the school, in Room 113, students

learned how science can be used to do magic tricks, such as

sticking a needle inside a balloon without making it burst.

For the entire day, more than 500 students from all grade

levels at Ruth Upson saw, on Nov. 3, how science really works.

They participated in Science Discovery Day, which included

experiments, a display of various mammals by Lee High …