Okay I know that I haven’t written in awhile, but we have been very busy at the OBSI. In just four weeks of school, my new “agents” are becoming old hats at the scientific method. They are moving through the process and learning how to write full lab reports. Yes, my students are writing FULL lab reports. They are analyzing errors, discussing the concepts and then writing it all out.
I have started a second blog that is on my school site. (I can’t get to this one with the school’s internet filter, but they are trying to figure something out for me.) I have been having a hard time choosing which students to feature on the blog! I have so many that are so good!
We have discussed Einstein and Edison, astronomical physics, and all sorts of other amazing topics and still get through the curriculum too! We have even come up with a scale of sorts to decide what type of lab report we will need. “Edison to Einstein” Edison-type of lab report being the error analysis and what to do better (since he was “the 10,000 ways that did not work”, hands-on, figure-it-out kinda scientist) and Einstein is the “thought, what is going on in the experiment, what was I supposed to learn with this”-kinda lab report. And they GET IT! They are understanding how to PROCESS all this information and they are talking with each other and coming up some of the greatest thoughts!
My kiddos are amazing! Absolutely amazing. Tonight I go to sleep a very happy director of the OBSI. It is really hard to get this smile off of my face…
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Ms. O
O's Bureau of Scientific Investigations 