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:
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