FLORENCE, Ala. (WAF) – Teachers organized a pumpkin drive today with the Florence Fire Department to get students involved.
Students watched and recorded data as pumpkins fell from different heights.
Teachers said they wanted to give students a fun way to learn outside the classroom.
“I hope they’ve learned that education and science, all those things, are a little more fun than they think,” explains history teacher Andrew Frank. ‘The high school student does not always view school as the most fun and entertaining place. And so today I saw a lot of smiles and a lot of excitement. That is the biggest conclusion: learning can be fun.”
The tallest pumpkin fell from more than 100 feet in the air, right near the fire truck ladder. This lesson was mainly intended to explain gravitational potential energy. The pumpkin’s splatter pattern told students how much the pumpkin had from each distance.
Emma Jeffery, a student from Florence, said seeing the project helped her understand the lesson better.
“I like to see images when I’m learning, so in science they gave us labs to help us, but this really helped me see it,” said student Emma Jeffery.
Jeffery said the students enjoyed seeing the project come to life with a Halloween aspect to it. She added that it’s definitely a way to get rid of pumpkins after Halloween is over.
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