Essential Question:
How does the weather affect living things?
We joined Mrs. Gouzie's students for a science lesson with Mr. Prazar! The focus of the lesson was on how local plants and animals are affected by the warmer weather.
Mr. Prazar challenged our students to work together to create the “warmest” water bottle! Each group got to design an outfit for their water bottle using various materials- only 2 materials could be used! After, we put our water bottles in a cooler to see if the temperature would stay the same or drop depending on what we wrapped our water bottles in. :-) Ask your first grader what their group dressed their water bottle in!ll
We also had a fun time playing a game that taught us whether or not snow is useful for animals while hunting! Some students were mice trying to get away from the blindfolded animal. The animal was blindfolded because when there is a heavy snowfall, the animal has trouble seeing or hunting for the mice because they burrow under the snow! They have to rely on their other senses to hunt, which can make hunting very tricky. Which animal do you think found the snow useful- the mice…or the blindfolded fox!?
We returned to the classroom to check on the water bottles. Check with your child to see whether the water temperature stayed the same, got warmer, or became colder.
We are really looking forward to our next lesson with Mr. Prazar!
Until then, have your child view some of the National Geographic Kids videos on weather:
