In Physical Science students have been exploring the how science works as a process, and what measurements we use in science. They drew a cartoon explaining the difference between a hypothesis, a theory and a law, and also wrote up how they would conduct an experiment to answer a question they had.
We had a wonderful, if damp, morning making field observations in Advanced Biology. We then discussed what each person was now an expert on. We are currently working on a diversity of life project. Each student is creating a poster to be put up in the hall that explains each of the 6 kingdoms in biology.
Earth Science is diving into the different spheres of the earth. Students are researching on their own, then creating a way to present the information (poster, brochure, etc).
Everyone is a-twitter in Cool Science as we are doing a lab today looking at freezing points. Why are freezing points so coll (pun intended)? Because without being able to manipulate freezing points, we would not be able to make ice cream. We also practiced observations. Try having a family meal where you practice observing the meal with your five senses!
Biology we have been practicing our observation and questioning skills. Monday afternoon was the perfect weather to go explore the ditch and cattails at the back of the school, and yesterday we designed an experiment based on what we had observed on Monday. We will be looking at the metric system next.
What do shells and coral have to do with Chemistry? After learning about the metric system we had a lab yesterday measuring different shells, and calculating the density of each object.
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