We started class with a YouTube clip of Jimmy Fallon and Kevin Delaney releasing energy in candy, making elephant toothpaste, and using smoke to visual air bursts coming from an air cannon:
Next, students completed a questionnaire to better introduce themselves and to provide me with data for the WABS Teacher Externship program I am participating in this year. Students turned in the completed questionnaire, along with the signed syllabus. They also received a folder, wrote their name on it, and placed it in the file cabinet. The folder will help students stay organized throughout the school year and provides students with ready-made organizational strategy for keeping track of classwork. We finished the day with a “popcorn-style” class reading, where each student read a paragraph of an article and then got to pick the next reader. We read an article about lab-grown clothing, where scientist Suzanne Lee is using bacteria to create fabric.
Find out more by watching Suzanne Lee’s TED Talk:
The Art of Science 