Today, the class continued working on their Science experiments. Up until this point, the students (after becoming experts in the scientific method) had come up with a question that they wanted to investigate, made their hypothesis (or guess) as to what would happen, and then designed their experiment and identified what materials they would need to carry out their experiment. Today, the students began to test their experiments, to see if they would work as designed. Some groups experiments worked well, while others found that theirs didn't work as well as planned, and then needed to modify their experiment so that it would work (this is OK - modifying an experiment if it doesn't work is part of the scientific process, and often happens to scientists). It's so exciting to hear the conversations and see the collaboration in the groups, as they work together - I can hardly wait for the students to try their experiments 'for real' next week, when they film them for their final product!
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