Past projects 1
Help! A lack of Classroom Scales is Weighing Us Down!
Funded Mar 20, 2009
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Step into the Science Lab... See the mobiles hanging in front of the windows? The first graders made these as part of a performance assessment after learning about balance. Ask a first grader to describe his mobile to you and he'll point out how counterweights keep the whole thing stable and balanced. If you visit while a third grade class is working, you'll see them exploring the properties of water using "real science stuff!" A third grade student will show you how she can use a pipette to place water on a penny, one drop at a time. "Look!" she'll say. "See that round shape the water makes? That's called a dome. The reason the water does that is because of surface tension." Fourth graders making models of tributaries, fifth graders testing their predictions of whether objects will sink or float... it's all in a day's work at our high-poverty charter school in urban Rhode Island.