A Science Experiment!

On Friday morning we met with our second grade reading/science buddies in Miss T's class for the first time! We worked with our buddy to cut out two paper ghosts and then conducted some very scientific experiments to see how we could make changes to our ghosts to get them to spin. We first tried just dropping our ghosts, we then added a paperclip to the bottom to see if weight might help, next we bent the arms - one forward and one back while keeping the paperclip on the bottom, last we bent both arms forward.

We used lots of great describing words: float, spin, fast, slow, medium, glide - and we had lots of scientific ideas about why making changes to the ghosts arms and adding the paperclip helped to make the ghost spin. The kids were even able to tie their thinking into what they know about fans, swimming, and air movement!! Miss T and I were quite impressed with their predictions, observations, analysis, and conclusions. The kids brought their ghosts home so that they can share their learning with you!