The demonstrations require a room with two tables and a sink. We set up in this room and the elementary students come to us. The labs are done in the regular teacher's room. Through highly motivated chemical demonstrations and experiments, high school students will instill investigative curiosity in elementary school students. Chemical demonstrations and experiments are highly motivating forces for all ages.
Elementary science is too often a textbook topic.
Many elementary teachers and students are bored or afraid of science. We hope to catalyze interest in math and science by having high school chemistry students perform exciting chemical demonstrations for third grade students. The ideas taught in the show are reinforced later by having the high school students supervise a hands-on lab for the third grade students. Two high school students mentor a group of four to six elementary students. The young students mix calcium chloride, sodium, bicarbonate, and phenol red in a baggie and observe changes in heat, color, and gas production.