Swinging a psychrometer in Ms. Kaufman’s class…

"This lab in 8th grade Earth Science focuses on relative humidity. Students learn how the equipment worked by comparing results from two rooms—one known to be low humidity and the other known to be high humidity. Then they predict where on campus the humidity would be highest and lowest and test their predictions. Scientific discoveries begin with curious scientists. I am lucky enough to come to work every day and be surrounded by students who are filled with curiosity about life."—Ms. Kaufman

“It’s not like your everyday science class. In movies you see kids falling asleep in science and I wouldn’t blame them—normal science is boring. But Prep science isn’t normal science. Having Mrs. Kaufman makes it ten times better.”—Student

“When doing a lab or case study, it is very important to use the right methods to be as fair as possible. Since we do so many labs in this class, we know the scientific method very well. When we get to high school science classes, we will already have a set of guidelines to follow instead of having to create the whole thing ourselves.”—Student

“When these pictures were being taken we were doing a relative humidity lab. The best part was looking at how every place on campus had a different relative humidity. I’ll never forget how to swing a psychrometer or how to fix one.—Student