A magic moment

Amy Keenan, Mona Satre, Marissa Elsberry and JC Fuller are back home and settled into their classrooms, sharing a love of science with their students. It’s been a week since the solar eclipse. All the hype and excitement that embraced the country leading up to the spectacular event has all but dissipated. But even now, at the mere mention of the word eclipse, Keenan just bubbles with excitement.

“I was there when history was made,” she beamed when asked about her experience.

Although members of Ogden Community School’s Science Professional Learning Community began discussing traveling to St. Joseph, Mo. in May, the four-member team did not actually commit until right before when they ordered tickets online.

Tickets were sold for $20 per car, so just $5 each they thought was a bargain. Keenan said she read later they sold 5,000 tickets for parking spots at Rosecrans Memorial Airport where people from all around the Midwest, even as far away as China and Australia, gathered. St. Joseph, Mo. was within the fifth largest path of the solar eclipse with totality of 2 minutes and 38 seconds. 

Read more in the Spet. 6 issue of The Ogden Reporter.

PHOTO ID: BACK IN THE CLASSROOM: Middle school science teacher Amy Keenan asked her students: “Where were you on August 21, 2017?” Their responses were included in this wall display featuring news articles about the 2017 solar eclipse. Using a yard stick and wooden beads, students took part in an activity showing how shadows are cast when the moon’s orbit crosses between the earth and sun. -Ogden Reporter photo by Kathy Pierce