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December 2009
Students participate in ‘Monarchs in Space’ program
Keifer Alternative Center and Springfield High School students are participating in a program that allows them to conduct the experiment simultaneously with a space-based mission.
The students are studying Monarch biology at the same time the first ever Monarch “butterflynauts” have launched orbit aboard the space shuttle Atlantis and taken up residence in an international space station.
Photographer Marshall Gorby and I visited Catherine Lestrud’s class at Keifer today to talk to the class about their project. The experiment has been an excellent way to teach the students about observation as part of science and the students have enjoyed the hands-on work, said Lestrud.
The class has six caterpillars in three environments around the room to test the effect of temperature on the process of becoming a butterfly. Find out more about the experiment in tomorrow’s News-Sun.
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Moore-Fulton name decision coming this week
In one corner, you have the Springfield native and boxing legend Davey Moore.
In the other, you have one of the founding fathers of public education in Springfield and school namesake of several decades, John Fulton.
Who will win in the battle over the name of Fulton Elementary School will be decided this week when Springfield City Schools board members meet for what will likely be the last time this year.
Fulton’s likely going to keep the naming honors regardless of the board’s decision; the group of citizens, led by former Mayor Dale Henry, seeking the name change isn’t disputing that. What they want is to add Moore’s name, christening the school “John Fulton-Davey Moore Elementary School.”
Henry’s been seeking the change actively for a couple months, citing Moore’s significance in the community and the ebbing of the park named for Moore to accommodate the new Fulton school.
Board members offered to name Fulton’s gymnasium for Moore but Henry rejected the offer. The board said at a Nov. 19 meeting it would make a final decision at the meeting at 6 p.m. Thursday at the Clark Center on West Jefferson Street.
Do you think Moore’s name should be added to Fulton’s name or should the school continue as Fulton Elementary? If you want to talk about it, give me a call at (937) 328-0373.
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