Today, students got to meet their scientist for the year – Ms. Cortney Wieber! Ms. Cortney has a B.S. in Environmental Biology from Salem State University and a M.S. in Tropical Ecology and Conservation Biology from James Cook University, Queensland, Australia where she studied bats and zoonotic viruses. Students had TONS of questions about animals after that! We started the lesson discussing the importance of safety and being a team. Afterwards we jumped into our fun and mysterious lesson of the day – Mystery Tubes. Students learned today that to become a good scientist, you have to make specific and detailed observations so other people will understand what you have found or tested. We introduced the steps of the Scientific Method and learned how to write a great hypothesis, test it, and rework it until their observations matched their hypothesis.
For our activity, students had to make observations about what was happening in a sealed PVC ‘mystery tube’ without being able to see inside. Once they made their observations and wrote a hypothesis to explain what they observed, they worked in groups to build their own working models of the mystery tube. We finished up by talking about why many types of scientists also use models in their studies to help explain a phenomenon.
This lesson was exciting, challenging and great fun to complete.
Observación: Tubos misteriosos
Hoy los estudiantes aprendieron que para ser un buen científico hay que realizar observaciones muy específicas y detalladas para que otras personas puedan entender lo que has hallado o comprobado. En la clase introducimos los pasos del Método Científico, aprendimos cómo plantear hipótesis de manera correcta, las comprobamos y finalmente trabajamos reelaborando las observaciones para que coincidieran con las hipótesis.
En la actividad, los estudiantes tuvieron que hacer observaciones sobre qué es lo que pasa dentro de un tubo de PVC sellado (el tubo misterioso). Una vez que hicieron sus observaciones y escribieron una hipótesis para explicar lo que observaron, luego trabajaron en grupos para construir sus propios modelos del tubo misterioso. Finalizamos la clase con una discusión acerca de porqué la mayoría de los científicos utilizan modelos para facilitar la explicación de un fenómeno en sus investigaciones.
Esta clase fue un gran reto y muy divertida de realizar.
My favorite activity is the with the Lego’s .My partner was Alexa.I made a seesaw and I can’t decide Alexa’s.I had a lot of fun doing it, so thank you science from scientists for coming.
The important aspects of writing a procedure is details. If you write A procedure the person doing the procedure follows every step,we learned that in our lesson.You need specific and proper detail in order to make A procedure.
To wright a procedure you have to be specific and clear. If you don’t be specific while writing a procedure the person who is going to read your procedure is not going to understand the steps. You have to have lots of details.
I loved the lego’s because i made a bird shaped thing, and my partner talanie admited to not reading just skanning. But it turned out in the shape of a giraffee. thank you sfs i cant wait to see what you don next week.
The most important thing about writing a procedure is the details. If you write a procedure you have to be specific. If a person does not know how to d some thing. They will take it a different way than you think.
Thank you for giving us that fun mystery tube challenge.That was really fun and challenging it was kind confusing and frustrating at the same time.Thank you for coming to our school.
ive learned that its ore complicated then it looks and you have to take time and try to figure out this big puzzle
My favorite activity was with the Lego’s.Emma was my partner.It was so fun I want to do it again.But i was hard to connect her Lego’s they were so big.
Well my fave was doing the fun none expecting Lego project which was very fun super better than what we did last time any ways I hope we continue these fun projects. -jeany :)
The important aspects of writing a procedure are to use descriptive language and a good amount of details. Using a good amount of details helps the reader by giving them the right amount of information. If you do not give them enough details the they could do nothing with the procedure a.k.a they could not follow the directions. The details need to include the right order and they need to be easy to understand.
I liked this project because it is basically like a puzzle game and Marisa was was my partner and we both got all the piece’s in the wrong place which was the funny part about the project
and my favorite project was the lego one
My favorite activity was the legos. The legos was my favorite because we got to build things and after we finished we switched notebooks and tried to build their invention.
I learned that to be really shearchable because you probably can get the wright observation.It is important to do that and make a educated guess to observe what was inside the tube.This is what I learned about the mystery tube.
The mystery tubes activity was very fun because I put in things that were very hard to guess like a rock that sounded like a cube. My dad and brother guessed by shaking and listening to them. Jadon got one right and dad got one right. It was very hard for them because a lot of them sounded the same. it is easier to make observations by seeing what you are looking at.
My favorite
My favorite was the tubes I thought it was really hard to do.
To write a procedure you need details. We learned in class that if you don’t have details the thing you want the other person to make will turn out completly different if you aren’t clear . So basically the lesson was to tell us about when you are writing a procedure you have to use details and descriptive words to tell the reader or person who is making what you wrote as a procedure . If you have clear results the reader will turn out with what you had intended .
My favorite was the lego and we have to build each others products and we had to write procedures as we went along and my partner was brooklynn and dwight we got most of the procedures right it was fun doing that .
My favorite was the tube one because I thought it was challenging and hard, but it was fun cause I got to work with jasmine
I learned that the tube was really challenging but, I got a lot of help by Ms.Courtney. She told me that to put something that can hold it and put tape on it. Me and my partner James was really upset that it did not work because the pins and every thing else was falling out.