Middle Gate Elementary School students learned all about leaves on October 20 thanks to organized lessons by the school’s math interventionist Colleen Carriero.

For the lessons, Carriero said she collected leaves from her own home and brought them in for students to study. Different lesson stations were set up around the school’s science room for the day, and classes took turns rotating through the room.

At one station students rubbed leaves using paper and crayons to learn about texture, at another station, students learned about static electricity by rubbing balloons on clothes and seeing if paper leaves would stick to the balloons, and at another station students learned ways to identify leaves based on color, ridges, and more.

And finally, at another station, students looked at the local leaves using a microscope.

The day was called “Fall Leaf Fun,” and laughter and exclamations could be heard as students discovered new facts about leaves at each station.

Education Editor Eliza Van can be reached at eliza@thebee.com.