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Sound Experiments

This week in science our focus was energy. We discussed light, heat, and sound energy and how they can change things.  We did some really fun experiments this week to explore these forms of energy. 
For heat energy we used an air popper to see what would happen as corn kernels were heated.  It was quite tasty! For light energy we taped a cut out shape  to a piece of construction paper and then put it in a window toward the light.  After a few days we realized that the construction paper that was not covered by the shape faded from the light.  For sound energy we discussed vibration and how a faster vibration creates a higher pitch and a slower vibrations makes a lower pitch.  We  had a lot of fun exploring percussion instruments this week. Here are some of the pictures from our exploration!  

Color fun

We have learned a lot about color over the last few weeks. I especially loved all of the experiments we were able to do with color. Look below for some of the highlights! 

Here is our shaving cream and primary colors experiment!! Before 

Here it is after!  They loved making all the secondary colors.  

This one took some time but we were amazed to see the paper towels move the blue water and the yellow water into the center cup to create green water. 

Students used their science journals to record what happened when they mixed color water together in different ways.  I loved hearing all of the "WOW's" with this one! 

What fabulous scientist they are already becoming!