Blog Highlights – Updated 04/17/2013
Tag Archives: experiments
4G: Hot Meets Cold
What happens when hot meets cold? Just ask the fourth graders. In exploring thermal energy, the students conducted a simple experiment called hot meets cold. In this experiment, the students observed two jars, one with hot water and one with … Continue reading
2G: Prepping Paper
Currently the second graders are learning about where their garbage goes it is put into the trash can. Students learned about how garbage goes into landfills and how many of those objects can be recycled. One such object is paper. … Continue reading
4G: Hot Meets Cold
Aloha e 4th graders, Please watch the following video about how to set up your experiment for today’s class. Hot Meets Cold from Kalei Chang on Vimeo.
3B: Light Energy
Today the 3rd graders had their first taste of energy labs for the 3rd trimester. Students will be looking at three types of energies: light, sound and heat. They will be exploring the properties of each type energy. In light … Continue reading
3G: Simple Machines
In the second trimester the 3d graders are learning about simple machines. In their first experiments they explored the lever. Here students were asked to balance their levers with particular objects. By positioning the objects of different weights in certain … Continue reading
K: Exploring with Our Senses: Touching
One of the five senses is feeling and touching. Using our hands to explore is probably the second most used sense. In this activity, the kindergartners are exploring the sense of touch using a feely bag. In the bag are … Continue reading
Posted in Papa Mālaa`o (K)
Tagged experiments, hearing, seeing, senses, smelling, tasting, touching
Leave a comment
2G: Making a Compass
The second graders are exploring how magnets can demonstrate forces and movement. In this activity the students are creating their own compass using a magnet. If you’d like to try and make your own compass, here are the instructions. Supplies … Continue reading
4G: Water & Wind Erosion
What causes the Earth to change? Some of the ways that the Earth is constantly changing is by weathering and erosion. Weathering is the breaking down of rocks and other materials. Erosion is the carrying away of these broken down … Continue reading
2G: A Living Sponge
Why are the Hawaiian rainforests so important to us? Why should we protect them and keep them from being cut down? As the second graders are learning about the plants and animals that make up the Hawaiian rainforests, they are … Continue reading
4G: You Crack Me Up
As the fourth graders look at how the Earth is constantly changing, students took a look at our the Earth’s plate tectonics are constantly changing. Here the students use a hard boiled egg as a model of the Earth. They … Continue reading
K: Glow Germs
My favorite experiment do with the kindergartners is definitely the Glow Germ experiment. Everywhere I look forward to starting off the year with teaching the students why we always ask them to wash their hands at school. Wash when they … Continue reading
4A: You Crack Me Up!!
Did you know that scientist believe that the Earth’s continents were once one giant big one? Scientist call it Pangaea. The Earth’s outer most layer, the crust, is broken up into many different sections called plates. This plates move around … Continue reading
