MOULTRIE, Ga. — Students at C.A. Gray Junior High School jumped right into work on the first week of school.

This photo shows students in Lee Causey’s class planning and carrying out an investigation to determine in which liquid Alka-Seltzer tablets would dissolve the fastest.

Working in small groups, students followed experimental design and used the Claim Evidence Reasoning model to make connections between scientific concepts and their experiment. Students stated a claim, collected data throughout their experiment, used the data as evidence for their claim, and then provided reasoning tying the evidence to their claim. 

Students shown are Phuc Phan, Gabriel Barajas, Gage Tatum and Mikey Johnson.