Every Day 1 in our school rotation, a group of first graders come to science for some extra instructional time. This time is informal and extra time to share science with the students. In this rotation, the first graders are reviewing how to balance the scale. The first graders already shared with me that the scale was not even or equal and that we had to balance it. Wonderful! So they helped me equal all the scales.
Their next task was to weigh various items. They started with a pen and use weight chips to balance the scale. Many of them got that the thin Crayola marker was 6 grams. Then two were 12 grams. They even got to guesses that if each marker was 6 grams and two markers are 12 grams, then probably three markers would be 18 grams. YES! I loved to hear the counting as they added up the chips, which came in 1, 5, 10 or 20 grams.
I look forward to sharing more about our morning science I/E sessions.
