Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Feeling a little BUGGY?!

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Science Update!!!

Today was a day of creating, testing, and improving our water bug designs.

Here are a few words and a photo that students blogged themselves today!


"I did this in summer camp!" - Grace

"We have to test it on water." - Whitney

 "I like my water bug!" - Allie


The students worked diligently on their bug shoe design in their science notebooks. They used what they learned about properties of water at the sink/float stations and from video clips showing how real skeeter bugs move to help them in their designs. It was fun testing the bugs on the water together and getting new ideas from our classmates





Students are also learning about boat design and properties of water through class read alouds and browsing specially selected science books from the GEMS library!