'I'm a scientist' workshops

Next week, on Wednesday 21st January, I run the first of three evening science workshops - I'M A SCIENTIST - for parents and kids at Mountain View and North East Elementary Schools:

21st January for 4/5th graders and parents
28th January for 2/3rd graders and parents.
4th February for 1st graders

Then, on the 5th February, I'm at Cherry Valley Elementary School................and on the Saturday, I begin three Saturday morning science workshops at PACE, the large community center in Parker.

They'll keep me busy for a bit!!

CLASS ONE - FLIGHT: making and flying twisters, seedcopters, tiny boomerangs, blimps, papercopters (and getting them to land in tins), straw rockets, gliders, making and launching paper planes, AK rockets, parachutes, and more........................

CLASS 2 - for 2/3rd graders, again, a full house.

Then, a week later, CLASS 3 - for 1st graders. 

This was the one I enjoyed the most - the young scientists were on top of their game and their parents were so helpful. 

Super, super evening.

CLASS 4        The following evening, I went to a village school where the PTA had invited parents and their families to an evening of noshing pizza and 'hands-on' science. Noisy, but it went well.

Looking back over all the classes, the papercopters, flip flops, boomerangs, and the straw rockets were a great success, but the activity that really ignited the curiosity of all the kids was the balancing straw.......that's where you balance a straw on a bottle and slowly bring another straw close......

What happens?

Well, try it and see for yourself.