Students celebrated Water Daze at Northeast's Lifelong Learning Center. Students wrestled with the content, a raft of skills, and some pretty compelling experiments. It was fabulous! Water Daze 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' favorite 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 hypotheses verified or refuted.
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.
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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.
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 registered and organized our field trip! The sunny day was an added bonus!
