Snow Experiment

It’s never too early to engage in scientific inquiry. In fact our students at NRP ask all kinds of questions and their curious minds lead us to investigate questions such as: What are we eating in the snow? Is Snow clean or dirty? This week we decided to explore these questions and we carried out a simple experiment outside our school to observe what really is in the snow we eat and is it really clean as it appears to be when frozen. As you can see in the picture above, we collected four samples of snow and after they melted we decided: SNOW is NOT CLEAN at all! Especially the snow we found next to roads and on plow hills. We asked questions, we made predictions, we observed our results and we finally made conclusions based on our observations. Science is FUN J
Encourage curiosity at home and in the classroom and together we are influencing a generation of future problem solvers and innovators!

Some of the Colorado Early Learning and Development Guidelines targeted during this activity include:

• Scientific skills and Method: The skills to observe and collect information and use it to ask questions, predict, explain, and draw conclusions.
• People and the Environment: The understanding of the relationship between people and the environment in which they live.
• Initiative and curiosity: An interest in varied topics and activities, a desire to learn, creativity and independence in learning.
• Patterns: The recognition of patterns, sequencing, and critical thinking skills necessary to predict and classify objects in patterns.