Experiments

If you're unfamiliar with our experiment story, check out when we talked about becoming scientists, and our later blog posts about the tools scientists use.  Then look at how I introduced mystery liquid 1, mystery liquid 2, mystery solid 3, solid 4, and how we planned on procedures for experiments.  These are some pictures from the results of those experiments.

Planning experiments

Once the children were introduced to each of the four mystery jars, I told them my ideas on how they were going to make plans for their experiments.  I brought the idea to them as a whole group and asked if they were going to mix two of the substances, how would they do it?  Thinking like scientists, I heard to use tools like bowls, eyedroppers, spoons, and towels.  

I met with each child to hear their ideas for a plan.  What did they want to mix together?  How did they want to do it?  From there, I sorted them into "experiment groups."  We came up with procedures and made predictions.

From there we went forward and set up the environment for experiments!  Look for a picture story next.