Today in class we went over our quiz questions for Chapter five and six in our book. The quiz is due tomorrow (10.22.08). It was very nice of the teacher to go over the questions with us before we took the quiz because in the past not everyone has done well on the online quizzes. The benefit of going over the questions the first part of class is that now we all know what exactly we need for the quiz, that way we can do well this time around.
The second half of class we did an experiment. The name of the experiment was “The leaping Egg (or Ping Pong Ball)”. You take two glasses and put a funnel in one of the cups to simulate a wine glass, (We decided that wine glasses would be inappropriate for elementary students). You then blew on the ping pong ball and it jumps into the next cup. You can measure how far apart the cups can be before the ball gets out of control. It is a very good experiment for student to understand air flow.
