Madeline Neff works on a project.

BY DONNA BURROUGHS,
Triton School Corporation Superintendent

BOURBON — Students in Mrs. Strycker’s third grade class at Triton Elementary School have been learning about how light moves, creates heat, reflects and refracts.

These science concepts were tied to reading about Antarctica and penguins, along with socials studies, as we discussed “rookeries” or communities of penguins and the battle they have to stay alive.

This battle for life was the inspiration to solve a problem within the penguin habitat: how could we keep penguins protected from the weather and help them save their chicks from melting waters?

Third graders used materials that they had learned were good to reflect light and heat away from their penguin habitats which allowed the penguins to avoid the problems associated with melting snow and ice.