Static Electricity Experiment

I finally purchased a balloon inflater, just in time for our STATIC ELECTRICITY experiment day!              🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈

 

25 balloons? No problem!

First, the prep work. We cut out fish shapes from tissue paper so we can "go fish" with our electrically charged balloons!

Listen to the sound of fun learning!

Then, we got to experiment with various shapes.

Of course we had to try the good ole' balloon and hair trick:) 

Fun was had by all. We love science experiment days!

Our New Room!

I am so thankful to have our permanent space, finally! Welcome to Portable D12 where we SHINE FOR JESUS!

This was a ton of work, but I was happy to do it. I am also thankful for Mrs. Sarmiento (Isaiah's mom), Mrs. Aguilar (Noah's mom), Mrs. Plummer (Finley's mom), and Mr. Forte (Lizzie's dad) who helped me along the way.

This morning, John Riedl, Ruben Gutierrez, and Maria Gutierrez came to help as well. You guys are rockstars! 

I want to give a special shout out to our High School LEAD students who came yesterday and moved all of my tables, chairs, books, cabinets, and whatever else they could grab. Thank you Chris Salazar (Charlee's dad) for arranging for them to come. They were so efficient, helpful, and did it all with a wonderful serving spirit. THANK YOU High School students!!

If I failed to mention anyone else, I apologize...this was an incredible team effort, and I am blessed. 

Here is a video of our room. See you on Monday in room D12!

 

Marshmallow Shooter!!

We had a BLAST with our force and motion science experiment! First, we had to build the marshmallow shooter.

We used styrofoam cups instead of paper cups...not sure if that was the best idea since many of the cups ended up collapsing after putting on the balloon. 

Next, we wrote down our predictions of what might happen: 

Then, the students got to see if their predictions were correct. This is a video of them applying a small amount of force to see what might happen:

Here is a video clip of the students exerting a lot of force to see what would happen: 

This was the attempt where they tried to catch the marshmallow in their mouths! I'm not sure if anyone was able to do it: 

And of course, I had to let the children aim at me and see if they could hit me! Good thing the marshmallows were super soft!

Finally, we had a competition to see who could shoot the marshmallow the farthest:

On this one, you can actually see the marshmallow in the air! 

We all agreed that this was a pretty fun science class :) 

P.S. Some of the kids were a little frustrated that either their cup kept falling apart, or the balloon kept falling off. This is an easy enough thing to build at home. Your family can have a competition :)