Following up on our Buddy Circuit Project:
Here are the journal entries describing the activity in the children’s own words.
Following up on our Buddy Circuit Project:
Here are the journal entries describing the activity in the children’s own words.
Last week we joined our Fourth Grade Buddies in the Science room for a little experiment. Mrs. Ferguson shared a YouTube video describing simple circuit design using the materials found in a common flashlight. Next, we gave each buddy group one battery, two wires, and one small light bulb. Let the Mad Science begin!
At first, the children basically copied the experiment found on the video. However, we weren’t going to let them stop there! Mrs. Ferguson, Mrs. Pless and I wandered around the room provoking questions and probing for hypotheses. Once the partners began posing their own questions, idea beget idea and the possibilities became endless.
Before returning to our own classrooms, we asked both grades to share a little about the activity. Here are some of the responses: