FLORENCE, Ala. (WAFF) – Teachers organized a pumpkin drop today with the Florence Fire Department to engage students.
Students watched and recorded data as pumpkins were dropped from different heights.
Teachers said they wanted to give students a fun way to learn outside of the classroom.
”I hope they learned that education and science, all those things are a little more fun than what they think,” history teacher Andrew Frank explained. “The middle school student doesn’t always look at school as being the most fun and entertaining place. And so I saw a lot of smiles and a lot of excitement today. That’s the biggest takeaway is that learning can be fun.”
The highest pumpkin was dropped from over 90 feet in the air right off of the fire truck’s ladder. This lesson was mostly to explain gravitational potential energy. The splatter pattern of the pumpkin would tell the students how much the pumpkin had from each distance.
Florence student Emma Jeffery said seeing the project happen helped her understand the lesson better.
“I like to see visuals when I learn so in science she did give us labs to help us but this really helped me like see it,“ student Emma Jeffery said.
Jeffery said students enjoyed being able to see the project come to life with a Halloween aspect to it. She added that it is certainly one way to get rid of pumpkins after Halloween passes.
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