Keeping students interested in a lesson is an important thing for teachers to do. First year Bray-Doyle teacher Mr. Michael Mitchell’s sixth hour, 8th grade science remediation class is doing just that with science experiments.

The eighth graders have been working on air compression with water. Eighth grade Student Trinity Smith said she enjoyed the lesson because it gave the students a new way of learning.

“I liked it because it was a really simple experiment,” Smith said. “I didn’t take a lot for us to do the experiment. We just used things that we can find around the house.”

This simple experiment consisted of using water bottles, balloons, and a fishing weight.

Along with using the experiment to help engage the students, Mr. Mitchell said he is in the process of getting help from the Naval Academy.

“We will be sending the picture of the students experiment and a summary of what they did to the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland,” Mitchell said. “In return we hope to get more information on how submarines work.”