Sometimes when you teach, its the ideas that come at the last minute that the kids love the most. In science, we have been doing a lot of book work. The kids are used to doing an activity, experiment, or both at least 2-3 times a week. Partly because it is the end of the quarter, and partly because we have an upcoming field trip to the Aquarium, I am rushing the end of this weather unit. Today we only had 30 minutes for science. We had to learn about clouds. I had a worksheet ready to go where we were just going to draw the clouds, write one fact, and label them. BORING, but they got the information. I didn't want to drag out the glue and the cotton balls, so I thought of my messy closet.... SHAVING CREAM!
You would have thought they died and gone to heaven. I heard over and over today how this was the best science ever!
First I reviewed with them on
this cloud website the different kinds of clouds. We also played the memory game.
Then I left the image of the different kinds of clouds up on the screen and gave them a squirt of shaving cream. I had them create each of the different kinds of clouds. Then I had them make any of them and let their neighbor guess what it was. Finally, I let them PLAY and get the shaving cream off the desk!
After they were cleaned up they had to draw and label 4 kinds on the worksheet.
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