The photo below shows our finished collection of shared investigation methods, results, and the conclusions we made today (synthesis and the big idea).
This photo shows the variety of the chart or organizational tools the children made to collect then share their data.
After drawing conclusions, the children learned about how to form conjectures (throw out an idea/inspired thought that came from the learning - bonus learning tied to the investigation that is stronger than a hypothesis but has not totally been validated or proven). The goal is to synthesize (find similarities) the information we learn to make this inferences based on new learning and tie in evidence to support it.
These are their first conjectures (100% their words) which serve as incredible evidence of their scientific thinking:
"Sink water adds pressure with the heat." (evidence: Cody's data)
"If you use smaller ice cubes, then they melt faster." (evidence: blow torch took longer than the boiling water according to our data/ data - Kirsten, Owen, Jacob, and Cody)
"The color black attracts more heat." (Jordan's car and hair)
"Salt lowers the freezing temperature of water from 0 degrees Celsius to -10 degrees Celsius." (evidence: salt data from many friends + Ashley's dad)
"Friction and pressure help ice cubes melt faster, because they both create heat." (evidence: data from Tyler, Owen, Fin, Jake, Kirsten, and Megan)
"Foil does not help an ice cube melt faster. In fact (my word phrase ;) ), foil keeps ice frozen even longer." (evidence: Jake's data)
That's incredible scientific use of vocabulary, synthesis, and thinking! :) Would you agree?
After finishing our last Friend of the Day, each child made a "di-vis-i-bil-i-TY" (tee) to show and prove with evidence what we've been doing each morning. Every child started with a different number, used math skills learned to show their work, glued it on a color choice, then cut out a shirt (no templates) to decorate. They were so proud and were very excited to find them hanging on the clothesline after recess.
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