1st Grade – MatterMasters

Brain Pop Jr.

March 27, 2020 by webmaster

Go to BrainPopJr. If you don’t know the login, email Mrs. Allard at [email protected].
Watch the video on science experiments.
Keep a list of questions in a notebook or on the computer for sharing with Mrs. Allard after spring break.

Questions can be about anything in the natural world or people-made world (like engineering). You can go back to the BrainPopJr. video and listen the questions they had there as examples. You can also do the activities at the bottom afterward.

Generating Germs

March 21, 2020March 15, 2020 by webmaster

Bread and Potato Germ Experiment

On Friday, March 13th, Rooms 101, 102, 213, 214, and 215 did an experiment with bread. Room 102 also did an experiment with a potato.

I shook every students’ hand when they entered the classroom (I HAD washed my hands previously), but they didn’t know until afterward that I had put green glitter on my hand. The glitter represented the germs that were on my hands after I sneezed into them. We observed how many germs were spread throughout the class after touching so many people.
Next we used bread to represent skin and touched the bread. We will compare these pieces of bread with the control – a piece that was untouched (I used gloves).
We also came up with other things in school that people frequently touch, and then rubbed the “skin” (bread) on those items as well. I will post the daily update here. There were a few samples that the Day 1 photos did not come out, so those are starting with Day 2 in the galleries below.
We also did a peeled potato as well.

Note: We did spend time washing our hands to make sure everyone was safe during this experiment.