Friday, September 28, 2012

Some of This Week's Science Highlights

This week, first graders are learning about amphibians. We read about frogs, played a game to recognize different amphibians called frog, toad, or salamander and we made life cycle wheels.
Third graders this week are geologists. They each got a mock rock to observe and next week they will be breaking their rocks down to see what minerals are present. 3rd graders are able to bring in rocks to share with our science class next week. They can bring them in an egg carton or shoe box for safe keeping. Rock on...3rd graders.

Fourth graders are learning how to set up a controlled experiement to answer the "big idea"...What happens to the strength of the attraction between two magnets as the distance between them increase? Ask your 4th grader what happened when we added spacer and washers to our scale.