Have you seen this yet?  It was filmed with a drone by Brewer Engineering.  I am a founding teacher and it is so amazing to see how our prayers have been answered.  We are blessed!

Lab helpers come to my room each day to help me feed the fish, turtle, crabs, frogs, and ducks. I really enjoy spending some individual time with my students and it is a great opportunity to teach them how to care for our lab animals.

They are only 12 days old and just opened their eyes!

We used Steve Spangler’s solar bag to demonstrate that hot air rises, but our bag didn’t go as high as last year. We did the experiment in the afternoon, so possibly the outside air may have been as hot.

Watch below to see the bag demonstrated by Steve Spangler.

King’s Ridge just built new shelves in the science lab.  Happy dance!

I asked these third grade students to repeat the physics investigations we did in class, so I could record them in slow motion. All three of these investigations illustrate the concept of inertia- an object at rest tends to stay at rest until an outside force acts upon it (Newton’s first law).  Vocabulary included mass, gravity, friction, and force.

Click on each link below.

Can you whip off a tablecloth without the dishes coming with it?  Why?
Investigation 1

A hex nut is on top of the yellow ring.  How can you move the ring and make the hex nut fall into the bottle?
Investigation 2

A golf ball is on top of a toilet paper tube which is on top of a tray.  How can you get the golf ball to fall into the cup of water without touching it? Why doesn’t it sail off with the pie plate?
Investigation 3

If you repeat the tablecloth investigation, make sure the tablecloth doesn’t have a hem. 🙂

I demonstrated this one too.  I hit the side of the tray which had more mass and the three balls fell into the glasses.  It is fun to try this with eggs. It is all about inertia!

First grade wrote in their journals about our firefly lab yesterday.  Their teachers sent me some pictures.  I am so impressed with what they remembered and I am so glad they shared them with me!

After learning about a turtle’s anatomy, habitat, and life cycle, we observed our own turtle and fed him a worm. Then the Pre-First class made turtles and wrote a fact they remembered.