Magical Science Videos

You can watch a lot of the action from Friday at our classroom YouTube Channel at:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUoRg354TSEmkqZj4O96zWg

Preparing for our magic show!

Learners are gathering materials and practicing their science magic tricks! I am excited to see what they do tomorrow!

Heavy Balloon

Everything is made of MATTER...all matter has MASS

The idea that everything is made of matter and that all matter has a MASS is a tough one for some learners to grasp. Simply finding the mass of two balloons, one inflated and one deflated helps learners see that even AIR has mass!

Crushing bottle magic!

This demonstration briefly shows how molecules are effected by changes in temperature within a closed system.

Oobleck!

Bartholomew and the Oobleck!

Back in 1949, Dr. Suess wrote a book about crazy stuff falling from the sky in the Kingdom of Didd. This stuff was created by the king's wizards and was stick and gooey and caused all sorts of problems. They called the stuff Oobleck.

Teachers for years have been creating their own versions of Oobleck for use in science classrooms as learners explore the different states/phases of matter.

Our version is simply made by mixing corn starch and water.

The great thing about the mixture is that learners can feel how the substance acts like a solid when they squeeze the molecules together, yet the substance flows freely like a liquid when pressure is released! It really is a lot of fun to play with!

Density Labs - Details

Learners spent over a week working in our STEM labs at the 2-8 building working on finding the mass, volume, and density of various materials.

Below is a summary of a few of the labs:

Reading with a twist

The other day, we spent a little time reading from the book Atoms and Molecules by Spilsbury.

To add a little fun to the activity, we played a little game inspired by a radio show that used to run on 700 WLW. They called it "Sports or Consequences" and folks would call up and try to "Stump the Chump" with trivia questions pertaining to Cincinnati sports history.

If the hosts got the questions correct, they would yell..."We don't, We don't, We don't mess around. Hey!"

Our learners had fun trying to stump their friends with interesting facts from the book!

Disappearing Ball - A demonstration in density

Learners spent a lot of time over the last few weeks exploring and calculating the density of many different things.

This was a small demonstration of density that we did in class...