Science Night

What a fabulous night!  We attended science night at Max's school last year and he loved it, so when the sign up came home this year he was all over it.  The kids work in small groups and rotate through classrooms completing different science experiments.

The first experiment was a huge hit - I mean come on, it involved holding a worm.  It was funny to see how different the boy groups on behaved on this one than the girls.  The little boys in our group were pretty much fighting over who got to hold the worm, the girls next to use wanted nothing to do with it.

After the worm they moved on to bubble making.  There were several different bubble blowers and they had to predict how many bubble each one would blow.  They compared their predictions to the actual and then graphed their data.

Lastly they worked to use air pressure to move objects across the desk.  Our whole group was shocked that it was so hard to blow the feather across the table!  At the end they were able to race these little cars across the table.  It was fun, but pretty gross.  Little boys blowing through straws to race cars means lots of flying spit.

There was another big element to science night - the Science Fair!  Max first got excited about the idea when his school hosted a STEM evening.  Then we came up with idea for his project over winter break when he was bored and we looked up paper airplanes on You Tube.  He made five different planes and predicted that they would all fly the same since they were made out of the same paper.  We tested his hypothesis by flying each plane three times and recording the data.  He did found that the Streaking Eagle flew the farthest.  I was so proud of how hard he worked on this project.  He recorded all his steps in his log book and even worked with me in excel to create a graph of his data.  He was super proud of the final result - he got second place!