Students celebrated Water Days at
Northeast's Lifelong Learning Center. Students wrestled with the content,
a raft of skills, and some pretty compelling experiments. It was
fabulous! Water Days consists of four 30-minute classroom sessions
featuring hands-on learning. Natural
Resources District is the festival sponsor.
One core session that is always among the students’ favorites is the water rocket launch. Water rockets are used to help students understand the principles of aeronautics. Two-Liter Pop Bottle Rockets may well be the greatest physical science teaching tool ever created! Middle grade students can manipulate and control variables and see their hypotheses verified or refuted.
In the “Edible Aquifer” session, students constructed model aquifers with cereal, ice cream, and pop. This activity was a fun and easy way to understand the geology of an aquifer.
And there’s the icky “Garbage-ology” activity that has
students sort through garbage and make garbage pizza discs. “Kids tend to like this trash talk,” Mrs. Miller, Keep Norfolk
Beautiful, said with a laugh. “It’s very educational and a fun way to show kids
what a landfill is.” Play My Garbology at home to learn
how to reduce the amount you and your family throw away each and every day.
Students participated in a Jeopardy
game which proved the Water Days festival greatly improved
participants’ water knowledge. Any session that gets children moving is popular
and provides an opportunity to incorporate education. After all, education
is the NRD's mission.
A big thanks to the middle school
science teachers who organized and registered students for this field trip.
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