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Friday, December 7, 2012

Week 16- Unfair Taxes & Handwashing

Since this week was Hand Washing Week we did a little experiment. I gave each kid some germs (special powder) to rub into their hands. Then we looked at our hands under a black light. Then I had different kids "wash" their hands different ways: water only, soap and water, and hand sanitizer. Here are the results.

Washed with soap and water
Germs!

Washed with hand sanitizer Germs!

Washed with water only
Germs!

The kids were a bit grossed out when we talked about how hand sanitizer kills the germs but leaves them on your hands. Maybe we'll have some good hand washing taking place now.

We are also learning about events leading up to the Revolutionary War. I randomly picked a king (in this case we used a queen) and members of Parliament. We also had a tax collector (pictured in the back).
Unfair taxes

Each of the colonists earned skittles. Then the king and Parliament declared taxes on certain items to help pay for the French and Indian War.

Unfair taxes

After this the kids could understand why the colonists felt like this was so unfair. Here you can see a student trying to figure out how he can pay the tax on pencils when he has more pencils than skittles.

Unfair taxes

Our class has also been learning about the digestive system. I grossed a lot of them out this week with the video below. It shows the steps in the digestive system. Their reaction was priceless!



STUDENTS: This week we helped our nurse start an experiment at school. Tell our readers about the experiment and what you did. I would also like you to make a prediction about what you think will happen with our experiment and why you think that. Don't forget to "kill" because!

7 comments:

  1. well my group was raina me and collete.we did gym water fountain and girls toliet. the expirement was cool and nasty.Because collete had to put her hand in the toliet. i think the water fountain will grow mold and fungus. the toliet will be a little dirty. us girls are clean.

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  3. Hannah and i cleaned the first grade water fountain. there was blood all over it and then we swabed it on the jello type thing.I think the water fountain in our group will be worse BECAUSE with the blood and everything i think it will grow a lot.

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  4. My group was Ryan J. Collete and Me we cleaned the 5th grade bathroom.

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  5. We did the waterfoutain because their were to many boys on the toilet. I think that a big mushroom will grow.

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  6. we did the waterfoutain i don't a lot of germs will grow

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  7. My partner was bella and we did the 1st grade boys bathroom and I think the waterfountain is going 2 have more germs than the bathroom because it had blood and other stuff

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