Today they discussed more properties. First Mrs. P. had them list properties of humans. Then she brought out a tray of cookies and told each child to come pick one out of the three different flavors. The three choices were chocolate chip, white chocolate macadamia and double chocolate chip. After each student had a cookie, she told them each to go to a table with everyone else with the same flavor of cookie. She then told them that they are scientists from different countries and they all had to decide on common properties that could be agreed upon by everyone at their table. I sat at the table with the white chocolate macadamia cookies. I was trying to help assist them come up with properties for their cookies. Most of them tried listing "delicious" as one of the properties and I had to explain to them that just because the cookie tasted good to them, does not mean it tastes good to everyone. After coming up with a list of properties for our cookie, Mrs. P. had all the children read off their lists to find similarities between them. This way they figured out what properties would be for a cookie in general. After accomplishing this, we were all allowed to eat our cookies. It was very tasty and I wish I could have had more LOL. Next, Mrs. P. told the scientists that their friend was stuck on Planet Oobleck and they had to create something that would float on Oobleck in order to rescue them. The kids got into groups and each created their own spaceship that they thought would float on Oobleck. Each one was different in their own unique way. Some were tall, some were wide, some were thin. Some of them failed the challenge, while others succeeded. It was fun watching all the groups test theirs out.
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