Scientists In School
Move-It
Simple
Machines for Grade Two
Dear Parents,
We will have a workshop on Friday April 25, 2014. The following information is regarding the workshop. If any parents will be volunteering, please send me an email to arrange it. I'm in need of 4 parent/volunteer. I'm looking forward to the workshop. :)
Hello,
Thank you for booking the “Scientists in School” program, Move It,
for your grade 2 class. Your
presentation will be on the morning of Friday, April 25th.
Please have all the students wear name tags printed large enough
so that I may read them. Please add the
title ‘Scientist’ to their name since that is how I will address them.
Please arrange to have at least four adult volunteers, to help
with the centres. It would be
appreciated if they could arrive about
20 minutes early so that I may explain the centre that each will be
supervising. It is imperative that we
have an adult at each centre for the presentation to be successful. (I will be
stationed at one of the centres.)
Please have a large Zip-Loc
bag (or equivalent) available for each student. They will use these to store
the items they collect from each station.
Activities
We will begin by talking about simple machines and how they make life
easier for us. The discussion will touch
on the six simple machines: inclined
planes, levers, wedges, wheel and axel, and pulleys. The students will then rotate through the
five centres with 15-20 minutes spent in each.
Each of the five centres will represent one of the simple machines with
the exception of pulleys. We will not be
experimenting with pulleys. The session
will end with a brief discussion on the students’ findings.
I look forward to spending an enjoyable morning with your class. Please call or email me if you have any
questions.
Isabelle Tardif
