SCIENCE, SCIENCE, SCIENCE!!!

5th Grade: "Raining Cotton Balls" Lab

 3rd Grade: Studying x-rays! 

 5th Grade: STEM Challenge- OIL SPILL CLEAN UP!!!

 1st Grade: Investigating soil samples! 

 3rd Grade: Observing the phases of the moon!

Kindergarten: Students were using their observation skills and exploring "Magic Milk."

Cloud in a Cup.

Kindergartner came in for a collaboration on the water cycle. They loved watching their cloud eventually "rain." The activity involved them making a hypothesis, drawing what they observed, and writing "how to"statements. 

Separating Mixtures!

Third graders were given the task to seperate a mystery mixture! Once realizing the mixture was salt and pepper, they had to decide on a plan to separate the salt from the pepper. After several tries, they realized that the salt sinks and pepper floats. Next they used coffee filters to get the pepper out of the water. Then with the help of evaporation, the water eventually dried leaving the salt in one pile and pepper in another. 

Chromatography

Chromatography is a process in which you seperate colors into their basic components. Third grade students were surprised to see which colors actually made up black! 

Raining Cotton Balls

As scientist, we learn that making predictions and finding the actual results teaches us important information. In this lesson, students made predictions for how many drops of water it would take to make their cloud rain.  Next, they had to explain how the parts of the water cycle were demostrated in this experiment. 

Composting:

First graders were learning about compost and how they could help the Earth. After reading a story, students had to sort items into piles of things that could go into a compost pile or not. 

Friction!

5th graders tested different surfaces to see which allowed their dragon to travel the farthest. Friction played a huge part in how far their dragon moved!