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[ellie]

hey guys.

just wondering if anyone has any good ideas for science class level 2 kinda. The sheets i have access to are so simple that they seem very complicated and i wouldnt be able to explain most of them to the kids.

So far I have done bubble making and grown various bean sprouts. I need more ideas- I often resort to colour in an animal and talk about certain interesting points.

thanks for any ideas
ellie

[Zenpickle]

Straw Horns
Give each student half a straw. They cut the straw so that one end is pointy. They put the pointy end in their mouths and blow. After some practice, they can make noises with them. Have them experiment with different sized straws. Some students even get the idea to connect straws together.

Science of Taste
Have students take blind taste tests of different substances like vinegar, sugar water, saltwater, etc. Make sure they describe what they taste in English, or teach them what each taste is.

Magic Mirrors
If you can find some small mirrors, use them to let the students explore how to make objects bigger, smaller, and distorted.

Paper Hole You Can Jump Through
I remember this one from ��Mr. Wizard��s World,�� and the kids have loved it. Give each student a piece of paper and ask them to cut a hole big enough to fit their body through. They��ll all try to do just that. Then give them a sheet of paper with zig-zag lines and a slit down the middle (IM me, and I��ll see if I can find my copy of it). Have them cut along the lines. It creates a continuous paper strip that they can put their bodies through.

Candy Crystals
Dissolve lots and lots of sugar in hot water over a stove until it becomes a syrup. Put the syrup in jars and dangle strings inside them. After a few days and weeks, the sugar will crystallize into rock candy.

Stumbling Cup
This is hard to explain. Take a paper cup and put it upside down. Cut two slits on one end of the lip and two slits on the other side of the lip, making flaps. Wrap a rubber band around these flaps so that it straddles the mouth of the cup. Get putty or playdough and wrap it around the rubber band like a wheel. Roll the cup back and let it go. The wound up rubber band will make the cup stumble forward on its own.

Cup Phones
Use paper cups and string to make phones like we did as kids.

Spoon Bells
Tie a metal spoon on a string. Wrap the other end of the string around your finger and stick your finger in your ear. Hit the spoon. It sounds like a deep bell.

Self-blowing Balloon
Put baking soda in a balloon. Fit the balloon on the opening of a jar of vinegar. Quickly pour the vinegar in the balloon and close it off. The balloon will blow itself up. An interesting side effect is that it also becomes a coolant. The liquid gets cold and condensation forms on the outside.

Pulley Car
Use paper clips and a paper cup to rig a bucket. Create a pulley system in your room so that you can pull the car to the top on one end of the room and let it go down to the other end. Fill the cup with things to see what difference it makes.

Secret Message
Cut up a bar of soap and have students write with it on white paper. Then have them scribble over it with a pencil to see their magic invisible drawings. Then have them write (in English) secret messages to their friends.

Paper Airplanes

Straw Rockets
Have the students make little cigars out of paper with frayed ends, like a badminton bird. Give them straws and have them launch them by blowing the rockets from the straws.

Robot Arm
Connect wooden chopsticks together at joints with rubber bands so they look like retractable arms. Very popular project.

Parachute
Come up with some tissue or handkerchief parachute which the students can hook up little toys to with string.

Pizza Box Oven
I haven��t tried this one yet. Supposedly you can line the inside of a pizza box with aluminum foil and have it open at a 90-degree angle in the sun, and it��ll get hot like an oven.

Dinopedia
Great Dino cards and stuff.
http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/content/science/dinosaurs/index.html

Yahooligans Science is a very good resource for kids' science.
http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/content/science/

[peppermint]

On behalf of every teacher the kids might ever have in future.







PLEASE DON'T TEACH THEM HOW TO MAKE PAPER AIRPLANES!!!

[Demonicat]

Cleaning pennies with vinegar
Baking soda volcanos
Rock candy

[Grotto]

growing potatoes

worm farm

potato battery

[mumblebee]

I've been running a kindy science program since March, complete with lesson plans etc. I tend to teach stuff that is heavy on vocab and actual learning, as opposed to just "wow, neato" gadgets and demos (although I try to work that stuff in too, when appropriate.) If you send me your e-mail address, I can send you some of the lessons that went over well...

For printable resources, get yourself a subscription to www.enchantedlearning.com, there are a ton of great science resources there.

MB

[Zenpickle]

As an aside, avoid the Science School 0513 program. Even though many of the ideas in my previous post came from that program, those were the few good experiments out of the 156 I taught under my year with that program. It ranges from annoyingly bad and useless English to experiments that don't work to experiments that actually injure the children. One time they sent me a packet for a 5 year-old class using syringes, and they didn't bother taking the hypodermic needles out.

[ellie]

thankyou all for the great effort in the new ideas. thats wonderful. was a little concerned of what to do. family offered suggestions but they dont understand that the children are learning english.

thanks again everyone
ellie