Science!

So I wanted to update you guys on my attempts of being a science teacher... Now I know my brother is the science kid in the fam but I must say I've taken this chemistry project on and am doing really well!!! On Tuesday we added our mysterious (kind of) white powders to water to see how they would react. As you can see in the picture the set up was 5 cups with water and then small stirrers to add the powders. It was cool to see how the kids got so into it. It definitely renewed my love of science! Today we did the opposite! We added water droplets to the powders already on the table. In this picture you can see the kids looking at (well, their hands) the difference... It was so cool to start to see their own interests spark. I loved at the end when I asked them to share something cool that they noticed that happened and at least 8 hands shot up... 8/26 doesn't seem like a lot but it felt awesome to me. The next picture is something cool that one group discovered with cornstarch... They created a glue-like substance that held the stir stick up at a vertical... It was NUTS. The video, I was only planning on taking videos but a boy, we'll call Dave, wanted me to take a video. Now it should be noted that he first explained to me how to take a video on my phone (I mean really... kid, I'm not incompetent but still, it was a student becomes teacher moment) You can hear on the video their description of what happened. The only frustrating part came in the post lab debrief... I asked the kids to write in their notebooks two things. The first being a reflective score on a 4 point scale of how they were during the lab and second to write a comparing sentence describing the control drop and one of the 5 powders reaction to having water added. One student really protested and even got into an argument with me about having to write that and why it was important. Claiming "she had already done this and didn't have to show me what she knew." Needless to say it was annoying... but in the end... I won... duh.