Melanie Jones

7th Grade Science Teacher

[Melanie Jones @Ms_Jones8]

Best day of the year: Bottle Rockets! Witnessed students' ingenuity as they crafted and launched their very own rockets. 🚀 ✨ @wyckoffschools @WPSEisenhower

[Melanie Jones @Ms_Jones8]

Our environmental club planted a tree! Our hydrophonic garden also grew us a salad, making it a doubly green day! 🌳🥗 @mrfranchini @WPSEisenhower @wyckoffschools

[Evan Franchini @mrfranchini]

@WPSEisenhower courtyard cleanup continues. The Environmental Club cultivated the beds, rebuilt the rock paths & planted sunflower seeds.

[Evan Franchini @mrfranchini]

@WPSEisenhower Environmental Club planting an eastern red bud (fully grown tree with our sapling photo upper left) from the Arbor Day Foundation.

[Melanie Jones @Ms_Jones8]

Using dice to make net force diagrams. @wyckoffschools @WPSEisenhower

[Melanie Jones @Ms_Jones8]

Environmental club prepares pollinator seeds. @wyckoffschools @WPSEisenhower @mrfranchini

[Evan Franchini @mrfranchini]

@WPSEisenhower Environmental Club prepares the hydroponic vertical garden with fertilizer & minerals. Students tested the pH, added phosphoric acid, transferred the plants & set the timers. Kale, basil, lettuce & chard are on the way!

[Evan Franchini @mrfranchini]

@WPSEisenhower Environmental Club prepares rockwool cubes with seeds to germinate for our vertical garden. Students can’t wait to have a ready supply of kale and chard for afternoon snack!

[Evan Franchini @mrfranchini]

@Ms_Jones8 directs the assembly of the new @WPSEisenhower Environmental Club vertical garden donated by a Eisenhower student who won the Pomptonian Food Service Healthy School Lunch. We can't wait to get some vegetables and herbs growing!

[Melanie Jones @Ms_Jones8]

Students in advisory made pipe cleaner figures showing an activity that brings them joy. @WPSEisenhower

[Melanie Jones @Ms_Jones8]

Great day adding soil to the garden with Green Nation Club @WPSEisenhower

[Melanie Jones @Ms_Jones8]

A great Earth Day activity as @WPSEisenhower Green Nation Club and volunteers clean up our school!

[Evan Franchini @mrfranchini]

@WPSEisenhower Green Nation Club & volunteers collect litter around EMS as part of a TIEE Earth Day activity.

[Ms. Katherine Ilenko @ms_ilenko]

What better way to celebrate National Oreo Day than modeling our moon phases with Oreos! 🌕🌖🌗🌘🌘🌑
@Ms_Jones8 @WPSEisenhower @wyckoffschools

[Ms. Katherine Ilenko @ms_ilenko]

Having fun modeling the moon phases with chalk!🌑🌒🌓🌔 @Ms_Jones8 @Ms_MSilvestri @WPSEisenhower @wyckoffschools

[Ms. Katherine Ilenko @ms_ilenko]

Finding out the relationship between the level of activity and our heart rates! 🏃🏻‍♂️@Ms_Jones8 @Ms_MSilvestri @WPSEisenhower @wyckoffschools

[Evan Franchini @mrfranchini]

@WPSEisenhower Green Nation Club finished our LEGO Replay collection receptacles. Please donate used LEGO so they can be reused by Boys and Girls Clubs and Teach for America instead of being sent to landfills.

[Evan Franchini @mrfranchini]

@WPSEisenhower Green Nation Club harvested sunflowers to dry and save seeds for planting in the spring. Oops, I forgot to send this one after our interest meeting on Wednesday.

[Evan Franchini @mrfranchini]

@WPSEisenhower Green Nation Club. Week #2 of fall garden cleanup. Adding topsoil to the edible bed for the spring.

[Evan Franchini @mrfranchini]

@WPSEisenhower Green Nation Club built two collection receptacles for the Bic Recycling Program through TerraCycle. Send your dried out or broken glue sticks, markers, highlighters, pens, mechanical pencils or watercolor containers to room 512 or 310. They can be any brand!