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Testing forces inside Kara Bartunek's third-grade class.
Conte West Hills School third graders Olivia and Deon played tug-of-war in their classroom — not to see who was the strongest, but instead to conduct a science experiment to learn about forces.
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Davis seventh-grader Dulce puts pen to not-paper to make a 3D guitar figure.
Out of thin air and a 3Doodler pen emerged miniature plastic avocados and guitars and lava lamps — as hands-on learning took a new shape, literally, in an Upper Westville classroom.
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King-Robinson STEM teacher Jonathan Hill, with seventh grader Thomas: "They solve their own problems in here."
Eighth grader -- and budding engineer -- Nevaeh James building her hydraulic system.
As her hands worked deftly on a new in-classroom engineering project, King-Robinson eighth grader Nevaeh James glanced back and forth between a basic model of a hydraulic system and her own build — which she had designed to be bigger and with an additional moving claw.
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