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Today we finished the Pixie projects that we started last week. Then we learned about flight, thrust, lift and air flow. We tried our luck at making paper airplanes. We tested them, redesigned them and then tested them again.
This week we finished learning about the Scientific Method and selected our products to test. A following letter was sent home explaining what is needed for the experiment and the dates for the experiments and presentations. Everyone is excited about their upcoming experiments!
Dear Parents, I would like to do my Consumer Scientist experiment on_________. I will need to buy three different brands of the same product to test by early October 28th. I will also need the receipt(s) (or prices) of the products and the packaging so I can learn to calculate the cost per serving. We will be doing a brand comparison experiment. It is important that the products are all the same type (or flavor), but different brands. We will do our experiments on October 28th, analyze our results and then invite you come hear our conclusions at our Consumer Fair presentations. The tentative date for the presentations is December 9th at 9:00. We hope you can come! Today we watched a sizzling Bill Nye science video on heat. We also created a story board where we sketched out our science vocabulary terms and then illustrated them using a computer program called PIXIE 4.
This week we finished creating our advertisements and packages. Then we shared our creations with the class. We also started learning about the scientific method and discussed some possible choices for our upcoming consumer experiments (which will be in late October or early November).
This week we shared our germ comics and began our epidemic simulation. Everyone did research on a few different illnesses in order to try to find out what was making the community sick.
We started off today's class with a mystery! Students had to guess what was in the box by asking questions that could be answered with a yes or a no. After much questioning we learned that eggs were in the mystery box. All of our experiments today would be done with eggs . We discussed the meaning of buoyancy, translucent, and calcium carbonate. We had a blast doing our eggsperiments today! We sucked eggs into a bottle, watched a rubber egg bounce, learned how to tell if an egg was raw or cooked, and did an experiment with salt water to make an egg buoyant.
It was an Eggcellent day! Today we finished learning about packaging and advertising. We had lots of fun designing original boxes and creating advertisements for our products.
This week the classes had to solve a real life mystery about an epidemic that happened in 1993. Working in groups, clues were used to figure out what happened and why. We also finished our Germ comics and shared them with the class.
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