Get ready for STEM Adventures with an Experiment You Can Do at Home
It’s time again for Kiddie Academy’s STEM Adventures! To get your family ready for fun with learning about science, technology, engineering, and math, here’s an activity you can do at home. It’s called, “Sink or Float.” The activity was recently done at Daycare in Stafford VA . The teachers thought it would be fun to perform an observational experiment about items that sink or float. They asked students to bring in an item that was safe to put in water. Before the experiment, they made a chart listing the items, then asked the children to come up with a hypothesis – an educated guess – about which items would float and which would sink. They tallied up the votes, then conducted the experiment. After the experiment, they revisited their chart to see how their hypotheses compared with the actual results. This experiment highlights observation, deductive reasoning, hypothesizing, and comparing and contrasting results. Here’s how you can perform the experiment at home. Step 1: H...