A new place to play page 8 June 25, 2021 | Vol. 2 Iss. 26
SUMMER CAMP STUDENTS reach high to catch the hot air balloon as it comes back to Earth. (Upper right) EMMA IS WATCHING to see what Kara is going to do with the wings on her rocket. Photos by Roger V. Tuttle
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Up, up and away at summer science camp By Becky Ginos becky.g@davisjournal.com FARMINGTON—It wasn’t NASA but rockets were launched into the skies over Knowlton Elementary as students tested their homemade rockets during a summer science camp last week. “It’s a four day camp,” said sixth grade teacher Sonya Nelson. “There are rotation activity stations that are all science related. We make ice cream, dissect a sea star, engineer a kaleidoscope and use STEM learning building with Lego pieces to create something.” The kids also launched hot air balloons they had created. “They used tangrams and soma cubes to make shapes from these pieces,” she said. “They made panels out of tissue paper and glued them together to make the air balloons.” Nelson said on Tuesdays they usually go to an IMAX theater but because of COVID, they saw a movie at Davis High. “After that the kids worked Please see CAMP: pg. 7