Interesting Science experiment at Rosedale

This was the second day of the second week of practicum at Rosedale Elementary. I really wanted to write about the last two days that the Grade 2 students did on Tuesday and Wednesday. I remember yesterday, they were doing an experiment of how to make the floating thing to sink in water by adding rods on top of it. The students were required to add one rod each time and record how many rods can make that floating thing sink in water: styrofoam plate, plastic container, tinfoil plate and a plastic lid. I saw that all the students were having fun and all participating in the learning process, I found that when they successfully made it sank, they became so excited and when I circulating around the classroom and they raised their hands and asked to look at their finding. I thought children are all naturally love to share their experience and this was an effective way to give students the opportunities to participate in an active learning process and sparked their interesting in learning about science.

And today, they had another experiment and were required to design and build a boat by using placsticine (playdoh) and had to make it float. They had to draw the design on the booklet that their group member created; after that, they did the experiment by putting their boats on the surface of the water and see if it was going to float. Finally, they need to record their findings on the observation sheet and this experiment was quite interesting.