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Thursday, October 30, 2014 - Page 6

DYLAN CRAWFORD, LEFT - And Hadley Barnett, right,performed in the All-District Choir concert in Platte City,MO, on Saturday, October 25, 2014. The two Tarkio HighSchool music students also auditioned for All-State Choirwhile there. (Photo By Mike Farmer)

All-District Choir

THE TARKIO HIGH SCHOOL - Marching Indians havehad a great parade season this year. The band placed 3rdin the Southwest Iowa Band Jamboree in Clarinda, IA, and2nd in the Northwest Missouri State University Homecom-

ing Parade in Maryville, MO. Pictured with the trophies aredrum majorette Hadley Barnett and ag corps membersKat DeRosier, Christina Hall, and Bree Barnett.

(Photo By Mike Farmer)

Marching Indians place in parades This week, the Tarkio

Junior High Science Clublearned about ecosystems.

An ecosystem is a system

formed by the interaction ofa community of organismswith their environment.There are many differentecosystems in the world, in-cluding marine, savannah,desert, and rain forest.

Students used the game jenga to learn how animalsand plants in an ecosystemplay a major role in that eco-systems success. Studentsalso participated in an activ-ity that taught them aboutanimal adaptations in anecosystem. Students playedthe role of a bird looking forworms in an activity wherethey were charged with the

task of locating as many tri-

TARKIO JR. HIGH SCIENCE CLUB MEMBERS -Learned about ecosystems this past week. Pictured partici-pating in an activity that taught them about adaptationsmade to survive certain living environments are, from leftto right, Gabby DeRosier, Marina Sawyer, Troy Wennihan,Megan Lee, Zach Sapp, and Jimi Elder. (Submitted Photo)

colored rotini noodles as pos-sible in sixty seconds. Stu-dents looked at their resultsand concluded that green

and brown rotini were muchharder to nd than yellow.Students learned that beinggreen and brown were goodadaptations for living in thelawn and bright yellow wasnot.

Tarkio Junior High Sci-ence Club meets in themornings before school andstudents in grades seven andeight are welcome to attend.The club performs projectsand experiments that in-

volve a number of d ifferentelds of scientic study. TheTarkio Junior High ScienceClub plans on holding a sci-ence fair sometime in the

spring.

Tarkio Jr. High Science Clubmembers learn about ecosystems

What do you get when

you mix borax, glue, water,and food coloring together? You get a whole lot of slime!

The Tarkio Junior HighScience Club met on Thurs-day of last week to learnabout chemical reactions.

A chemical reaction is thechange of a substance intoa new one that has a differ-ent chemical identity. Somecommon chemical reactionswe witness everyday arephotosynthesis, combustion,

and rust.

Students mixed borax(laundry detergent), whiteglue, water, and food color-ing together to make coloredslime. Students enjoyed thisslippery science project andare looking forward to moreprojects in the f uture.

Tarkio Junior High Sci-ence Club is open to stu-dents in the 7th and 8thgrades and meets at 7 a.m.in the morning in Mr. Cor-ringtons room.

Science is slimy fun!TAYLOR STANTON - Mixes the slime. (Submitted Photo)

LITTLE YOUTH CHEERLEADERS - Performed for thecrowd at the East Atchison Wolves football game on Friday,October 17, 2014, at Kyle Field and M. David Palmeiro Sta-dium. The girls did a number of cheers and stunts to pumpup the crowd. Pictured are Brezie Bywater, back, and Eliza-beth Clark, front. (Photo By Mike Farmer)

Youth cheer performance

THE CORN - And soybean test p lots planted by the TarkioHigh School ag students were recently harvested with helpfrom Agrivision of Hamburg, IA. The students have learneda lot about the step-by-step process of producing a cropthanks to the implementation of these test plots. (Submitted Photos)

Ag students harvest test plots