A Week of Science!!

This week my class has been focusing on SCIENCE!!!  It has been so much fun!!  I love science and I am so glad to have the chance to share that with the kids.  They have really enjoyed it as well!!  Here are some of the cool things we have been doing this week:

We kicked off the week making a VOLCANO!!!  This is soooo neat, and the kids LOVED it!!

To make our volcano, we used a small glass and covered it with black construction paper.  You can use dirt or sand to make it look more authentic, but for our age level, I kept it simple.  Inside the glass I combined 1/2 tsp flour with 1 tbs baking soda.  Then you add 10 drops food coloring and poor in 1/4 cup white vinegar.  It's so simple!  We made a volcano with red "lava" and then we did one with green "lava".

The next thing we did was to set up our stuff to make crystals!

For this, we mixed 1 tsp baking soda into each cup of water.  We then took yarn and placed one end into each cup.  This experiment takes two days, but after one day, we checked on our crystals, and this is what we found:

They are growing already!!!  I can't wait to see how they look tomorrow!!!  The kids were really excited to see the crystals already forming!!



Today we made goo!! 

This wasn't just any goo either!  This goo was made out of 1 cup cornstarch and 1/2 cup water.  The neat thing about this goo is that it looks and behaves as a liquid, but when you touch it directly, it feels like a solid!  The kids loved getting their hands in the goo and playing around.

Today we also set up our gummy bear experiment!  I know what you are thinking, gummy bear experiment?  Yes, we did an experiment using gummy bears!!  Plus, it's a great excuse for us to get to eat some gummy bears!!  haha!

We took a gummy bear and traced it onto our worksheet.  Then we each tried to figure out if our gummy bear would grow bigger, stay the same, or if it would shrink, and then circled our guess on the worksheet.  After this, we placed our gummy bear in a cup of water and we will leave it there until tomorrow.  Tomorrow we will take our gummy bears out of the cups and dry them off.  Then we will trace the gummy bear onto our paper and compare it to what the gummy bear's size from today. 

We graphed the results of our guess as to what will happen to our gummy bears.  Most of the kids think the gummy bears will grow.  I haven't told them yet, but they are right.  The gummy bears look so neat when they are taken out of the water!  The way the sugar reacts with the water is so neat!!  The gummy bear will be about four times it's previous size and it will be real wiggly and jiggly!!

Stay tuned to see what our little scientist will do tomorrow!!!!