St. Patrick third grade takes on Mystery Science ...

Mystery Science lessons are hands-on and engaging to students, inspiring students to love Science. All Mystery Science lessons are aligned with Next Generation Science Standards and support Common Core. Pictured in the photo at left, third grade students in Mrs. Byrnes’ classroom at St. Patrick School in Waukon take part in the Mystery Science lesson “Can you outrun a dinosaur?”. In this lesson students learned about how fossil dinosaur tracks reveal how fast a dinosaur can run. The students were able to explore and figure out if they could have won a race with a dinosaur that was just their size. To determine the winner, students compared the length of the dinosaur’s steps with their own running steps, as shown in the submitted photo.