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 Ask mr. Science
During the 1996-97 school year, I spent an hour every
week in Linda Waidler's 3rd-4th grade class at
Wood-Gormley Public Elementary (randomly chosen because
my daughter was in it), answering any
science question the children might have. For the 97-98 year, I did
the same in Shirley Esquibel's 3rd-grade class (by coincidence, my
son was in that class). The next year, I did the science hour in
Ms. Irving's 6th-grade class, and last year I did the same in
mr. Waechter's 5th-6th grade class. This year mr. Waechter asked me
to teach the kids html, so there is a temporary lull.
Here I have some pages with the questions that came up, and elaborate
on a few of the
demonstrations I came up with to explain some of the concepts.
I am a scientist, not a teacher, and I do
not have a lot of equipment (and neither does the school). The
demonstrations therefore use simple materials I find in my kitchen,
shop and yard. This is low-tech science.
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