Today was Science day and it was a nice change from the last five days of CRCT testing! We made a salt dough mixture and built a volcano. The next step was to see if our volcano would erupt. All our volcanoes were successful and we demonstrate how volcanoes are destructive as well as constructive forces.
Today our class had a Science Lab to help us understand the Scientific Method. The lab include mystery powders that the students had to test with vinegar, iodine, and water to stay and determine which powder each was. The powders were salt, starch, and soda. The students seemed to enjoy the activity.
March 6, 2007
Today we had our science lab on Tuesday instead of Wednesday, because we have the 5th grade writing assessment tomorrow. Our science was concerning the classification of plants. We did several experiments with celery and with carnations, a type of flower. We will check on our flowers tomorrow to see the results of the experiment. In the celery experiment we observed the tubes. The tubes classify celery into the vascular plant group. Plants are divided into two main groups: vascular plants which have tubes and non-vascular plants which does not have tubes. We checked out the "Elmo" machine from the Media Center. It allowed us to see a leaf magnified and up on our class projector. We were able to see the tubes in the leaf. You can see the leaf in one of the pictures.
When we were observing our experiment, we also worked on a virtual lab on the laptop computers. We learned alot in our labs today. Follow some of the lab in the pictures below.
Jordan came and worked with our class on matter. We did an experiment with balloons, dry ice, tape measurers, and a stop watch. 
What did we learn?
