1st - Crazy for Crystals

We reused and recyled today in the lab...our knowledge that is. The kids built on prior knowledge of matter to investigate crystals.

We have increased the number of first grade labs over the past two years and I certainly am reaping the rewards of that decision every time the kids make the walk down to E-14.

We spent an hour today "oohing" and "aahing" over geodes, calcite, salt, sugar and even graphite during our investigation of crystals. We compared the size, shape and color of four different types of crystals.

Ask your student if all the crystals were the same size and what they noticed about their shapes.

As our grand finally, we mixed up saturated solutions of salt and will be "growing" crystals in the classroom over the coming days.

Messy, but lots of fun!!