Forces in Space Students experiment with toys, learning about the forces responsible for their movement on earth and in space. Kids, Cameras and Books Students learn good picture composition, how to develop film, how to construct and use a story board and how to print and enlarge their own photographs. Correlation with social studies, language arts and art is emphasized. Looking at Liquids Students investigate the properties of water, soapy water, cooking oil, corn syrup, and alcohol, and the interaction of these liquids with other materials. Pond Life Students visit a pond and set up classroom aquaria to investigate the plants and animals which live in ponds.
Students use pocketscopes to observe the microcosm of life in a drop of pond water.
Rocketry Students construct and launch model rockets. Measurement of altitude is determined through use of a clinometer and tangent tables. Model rocket kits are included. For Teacher Training Inquiry Skills Participants learn how to teach the inquiry skills of observing, classifying, measuring, inferring, recording data and predicting. Problem Solving Participants learn how to teach problem solving through activities which foster the development of problem solving skills and strategies.