The Seventh Grade Pod Takes a Field Trip to BYU

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On December 4, 2011, the seventh grade pod took a field trip to several different places on Brigham Young University campus in Provo.  “We wanted students to understand the real world application to some of the things they were learning in math and science,” said Ms. Rachel Neeley, a seventh-grade pod English teacher. 

According to Ms. Tiffanie Miley, a seventh-grade pod English teacher, on the field trip they went to a math presentation, done by the math professor at BYU, Dr. Michael Dorff. At the presentation, Dr. Dorff taught the students about math, and how it connects to their lives. He showed the students some of the research he has done with soap bubbles.  “He made the bubbles go into different shapes,” said Joshua Ripley, a seventh grader who went on the field trip. “He also showed the students some math games and code breaking,” said Mrs. Angel Nilsson, the math teacher for the pod. The students also went to the Bean Museum, where they learned more about animal adaptions, which is what the seventh graders had just learned about in their science class. While they were at this presentation, they had the chance to pet an albino frog, a bull python snake, and several different types of animal fur.

Overall, the students enjoyed the field trip and they learned new things on the field trip as well as in the classroom.

Attributions
Claire Davis, SJHS staff writer