We are preparing to begin our first science unit of the year. Before we begin our unit we must first learn the scientific method and know exactly how to set up our science notebooks.
Friday we took some time to learn about the scientific method.
We began by creating a flip book with each of the components we will be using in our notebook entries.
Then, we conducted our first investigation, Save Fred.
Fred is a worm whose boat capsized. Fred does not know how to swim and his life preserver is stuck under the boat.
The students had to save Fred (a gummy worm) by using only 4 paper clips. They could not touch Fred with their hands, and if Fred fell overboard 3 times then he was dead :(.
To save Fred students had to retrieve his life preserver from underneath the boat and put it around him.
They had a BLAST with this activity!
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