Scientists in the School

Today we had a full morning visit from Scientist Fiona and her friend Sally.  Our program was titled "I Can be a Scientist".  We became working scientists in our classroom lab.  We experienced the interesting things that meteorologists, astronomers, paleontologists and chemists do every day.  We discovered that science is FUN and anyone can be a scientist.  Thanks to our helper Moms for coming in to lead stations.  Here's a little photo recap of the morning's events.  Ask your little scientists which job they liked the best and why and let them retell what they did at each station.

Meterologist

• Testing temperature
• learning about precipitation
• making a storm in the classroom

Astronomer

• learning about stars, space and constellations
• it was in a dark tent and we got to use flashlights to make the glow in the dark stars and constellations appear!

Chemist

• mixing substances
• learning about solutions and things that dissolve and things that don't
• we even made a cool bubbly reaction!
• we wore lab coats and safety glasses and used test tubes and pipettes

Marine Biologist

measured fish

made fish prints

examined sea shells and some awesome dead (preserved) specimens (crayfish, horseshoe crab, squid, seahorse)

Paleontologist

• we made fossils using plaster of paris
• we uncovered dinosaur bones using the tools of the trade