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Solar Eclipse 2017: CCSD Students Blend Learning With Fun (PHOTOS)

The 2017 celestial occurrence also sent thousands of residents to northeast Georgia to experience the eclipse in the path of totality.

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CANTON, GA -- Students throughout the Cherokee County School District got to experience Monday's historic total solar eclipse with activities that blended learning and, of course, fun.

The 2017 eclipse blanketed moved into Cherokee around 2:36 p.m. Aug. 21, and each classroom teacher developed a class plan for learning about the eclipse, and lessons ranged from science experiments to creating eclipse-inspired art to enjoying moon pies and Sun Chips while observing the eclipse.

All classes that planned activities to observe the eclipse outside provided students with eclipse glasses (SIGN UP: Get Patch's Daily Newsletter and Real Time News Alerts. Or, if you have an iPhone, download the free Patch app).

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Creekview High School students learn about history and science by observing the eclipse.
Bascomb ES fourth-graders Brayan Rivera and Nathasya Yata display their eclipse-inspired artwork.
Cherokee HS students and staff don their approved eclipse glasses to observe the passage.
Third-graders Jason Tzun-Lucas and Myrka Cruz Lucas are ready for the eclipse (and Moon Pies) in teacher Wendy Landry’s class at Canton Elementary School STEM Academy.
These Clayton Elementary School Cougars dressed for the occasion. From left to right: Knox Blackwell, Lauren Blackwell, Cheyann Massey, Nora Leigh Stansell and Principal Abbey Philpot.
School Board Member Patsy Jordan creates a pinhole projector to show students at Creekland Middle School, where she viewed the eclipse. Ms. Jordan used her CCSD business card to make a projector.
Creekland Middle School students watch the eclipse as the sky darkens to twilight for its passage.
E.T. Booth Middle School students stretch out on the athletic fields to enjoy the view.
Sequoyah High School students took to the track to see the eclipse’s passage race across the county.
Woodstock High School hosted a viewing party at the stadium for students.
Woodstock Middle School students are ready for the eclipse’s passage over the campus.
Main photo: Freedom Middle School students headed outside with eclipse glasses to learn from the special event. Photo credits: Cherokee County School District

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