Happy Earth Day!!

Each year, our school celebrates EARTH DAY with fun rotations! Here's a peek at what we did today:

Paper Towel Rainstick

Recycled Relays

 Recycle Speaker

Story Time & Snack

Peel Crayons to Make New Crayons

Book Swap

 Pavers (each grade made one for our outdoor area)

Disappearing Peeps!

Welcome!! We are experimenting on the effects of various liquids on Peeps! We are testing water, vinegar, apple juice, soda, and laundry detergent. The students are recording the changes they see each day.

Day One

Day Two

almost completely gone!

Egg Drop

Each of my students created an invention to protect a raw egg from a 9 foot drop. They were SUCH creative little kiddos! In an unprecedented turn of events, all but one egg survived the fall. This has SERIOUSLY NEVER happened before in six years of teaching!

Check out some of their projects:

Peeps Experiment II

To go along with out Egg Unit, I found a Peeps Experiment on Pinterest. It is from Mom to 2 Posh Lil Divas. We used five Peeps, water, vinegar, apple juice, soda, and laundry detergent. And, because we are teachers, I created a recording sheet for this experiment. The students recorded how the Peeps changed in appearance each day over one school week. Here's our results:

Prep

Day 1

Day 2

Day 4

Day 5: Final results:

 

 

Based on our experiment, vinegar had the most effect on the Peeps, with water as a close second. The students really liked our GHOST Peep in the laundry detergent. But we decided that it did its job, got the color/stain out! I asked my students what other liquids we could perform this experiment with and they suggested orange juice, soup/broth, milk, and veggie oil.

Eggs, Eggs, Eggs

After reading What's Growing Inside This Egg?, we discussed what kinds of animals come from eggs. Not just chicks come from eggs! I loved this FREEBIE poem from Welcome to Room 36!

To go along with our Egg Experiments, I found these Scientific Method cards on Classroom Freebies.

This is my favorite Egg Experiment! I found it via Pinterest and was pumped to do it with my kids! It actually three experiments altogether: The Naked Egg, The Shrunken Egg, and The Exploding Egg.
Our Naked Egg:

 Our Shrunken Egg:

 

 Pre-Exploding Egg (back into water to "plump up"):

Exploded Egg: (popped like a water balloon)

 

We also completed The Average Egg experiment. Students tested their hard-boiled eggs in many ways: weight, circumference, rollability, appearance, and volume. We had discussed all of these topics before, except for volume. It was fun to see their reactions and predictions to a graduated cylinder. The students rotated around the room completing the experiment.