Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Oobleck...Solid or Liquid?

What a busy week, full of science experiments, book publishing and more. The fun continued as we began to wrap up our science unit about the properties of matter. Earlier this week we read Dr. Seuss's book Bartholomew and the Ooblek. Then, of course, we had to make our own ooblek to investigate whether it was a solid or liquid. We mixed a solid and a liquid and got a...??? Things got a little messy, in a good way. Students had different points of view, and were able to defend why they thought it was a solid or a liquid. Ask your child to tell you...solid or liquid? And why!

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