23 | December | 2016

This post will be full of pictures. Presently I am having difficulty getting all the pictures to upload of the “Who Am I?” presentations. So check back again later in the day to see 3E’s awesome work.

It has been a wonderful active week that is best learned about through pictures rather than words. Enjoy!

We explored science in many ways. We finished our exploration of magnets. We shared our “Who Am I?” secret scientist projects so the class learned about many different area of science they hadn’t considered before. We went to the SEE Museum and we celebrated science learning all day yesterday with experiments and observations and creations.

Magnets and Magnetic Lines of Force

Throughout the month of December we’ve been exploring magnets and magnetism. We’ve learned about the poles. We know that opposites attract and like poles repel. We know that magnets occur naturally on Earth and that the world is one huge magnet itself. Magnetic lines of force travel through solids and liquid. They are strengthened by electric currents and are used in many ways to make our lives easier though we may not even realize that magnets are all around us.

In the classroom we’ve had fun with magnets. We’ve made them float and learned that this is exactly how monorails work. We’ve used magnets to lift things and move things. We’ve used them to pull things and push things. Magnets are fun!

SEE Museum

Thank you to Linda Dionne, Kenneth Mango and Christina McAlister for joining us on for our field trip. We learned about electricity and used the Van de Graf generator. We explored Sir Isaac Newton’s laws of motion as we observed the harmonigraph drawing. We toured the many exhibits learning about light and perception, surface tension and pressure and ways to use all of our senses to learn. We created silly putty in the Slimy Science Lab using 2 parts glue to 1 part liquid starch – and lots of heat and energy from us. We stirred and kneaded the mixture to get it to its final fun state.

Who Am I?

Each of the children did a wonderful job presenting their scientist and sharing their artifacts with the class. We learned about civil engineers and aerospace and robotic engineers. We learned about zoologists, entomologists and ichthyologists too. We know about ornithologists, herpetologists and lepidopterists. We learned about geology, seismology, and volcanology. There’s meteorology, oceanography, astronomy, botany and paleontology. Science is everywhere. It makes the world run. It is fun and exciting. It is full of reactions and interactions. And it is always growing and changing. Science is how we learn about our earth and make new things happen. We’ve had fun exploring and celebrating science. Thank you to Marianne von Jess for joining us for the Flubber-fest and bringing our treat!