Water water everywhere

We had a fantastic visit from Scientists in the School on Monday. Scientist Tracy brought some highly engaging activities, and it was great to see our little scientists in full swing. Thank you to Lisa, Lindsey, Troy and Andrea for giving up part of their day to make this possible!

~This post is written by the children as a self-reflection and a documentation of their learning.~

This is Scientist Tracy and she is showing us the water cycle. It is a circle that goes around. The water goes down to the ground, then into the lake. Then it goes up to the clouds and it rains back the ground.

At the sailboat centre, we made sails and flags.

We coloured the bowl for the bottom of the boat.

Then we added a straw and made a boat.

They floated. It was a race!

We were trying to see what was floating and what was sinking.

The boat floated and the astronaut guy did too. The Lego sinked and floated. If it was full of air bubbles, it floated. 

We made reports about what floated.

We were talking about water with Scientist Andrea. We learned about way to use water.

We made a list: fishing, watering the garden, cooking macaroni, washing the car, washing ourselves, floating boats.

At Scientist Nancy's centre we learned about sucking up stuff. Some stuff was good at soaking up water, like the sponges and the cloths. We squeezed them and the water came out.

Some stuff was not good at sucking it up, like waxed paper. The water just sat on it like a bubble. When you wiggle the paper, it squiggled like jello.

The best centre was the water play centre.

You could make the boats move by turning the turbines.

You could fill up the locks with a pump and make the boats go up and down.

You could use the crane to lift packages on to the boat.

At the end, we made the sounds of a rainstorm with our bodies. We sounded like thunder and rain. It was cool.

Today we learned all about water. We learned what water was for and how it holds things up. We learned how to be scientists!