Grade 5 students pick up second place in provincial competition

By Tina Comeau

THE VANGUARD

NovaNewsNow.com

For a second consecutive year students at Arcadia Consolidated School in Yarmouth County have picked up a second-place provincial award through the Discovery Centre’s Grade 5 Science Video Competition.

The title of the students’ effort was, “Global Warming: Can We Save the Earth?”

The students started working on their video in January. Because global warming is an issue in the news a lot, the students decided to focus on this issue for their video. And also because it’s in the news, their video was made to resemble an evening newscast with interviews, segments and commercials.

The students and their teacher Jim Rideout called their production Live in Five. The students wrote scripts based on the information they had researched, and some of the judges’ comments included, “Fantastic advice for saving energy, and therefore the planet,” and “Great presentation, style, very well thought out and good science info.”

Student Jacob Mullen-Sweeney says the intent of the project was to demonstrate what carbon footprint society leaves on the environment and to have kids come up with ways to stop global warming and provide advice and suggestions to other young people and adults. “We learned a lot of information,” says student MacKenzie Pero, who says they passed on information too – things like towel drying your hair, instead of blow-drying it, to save energy, and turning the water faucet off while brushing your teeth.

As part of their winning effort, the class got to visit the Discovery Centre in Halifax on April 23.