NYC's Liberty Science Center Travels To LMK Middle School

The LMK sixth and eighth grade science students engaged in a unique learning partnership with the Liberty Science Center’s “Traveling Science Program”. The program was made possible through a grant received from the Harrison Educational Foundation.

“This program piqued the students’ curiosity in the area of science,” said LMK sixth grade teacher Caitlin Pastor. “It sparked their sense of wonder and acted as a catalyst for deeper thinking about foundational science concepts. This show helped our students “think like a scientist” by motivating them to make observations and ask questions based on their observations.”

LMK students watched and participated in creative experiments that focused on the three states of matter – solid, liquid, and gas – as well as how factors such as electricity, air pressure and heat affect these properties. These three content areas play a foundational role in the physical science curriculum of these two grades.

“It was exciting to watch all of the cool experiments that the scientists performed,” said LMK student Matthew Nappo. “When all of the people up on the stage were connected in a “human wire” while being connected in a complete circuit to the Van de Graaff generator, I didn’t know what was going to happen next so I was sitting on the edge of my seat!”