Our First Exploration – using thermometers
October 7, 2009
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We had a blast today! We discovered what we already know about thermometers, what we wonder about them and asked some questions about what we wanted to know the answers too. I was SO impressed with all the thinking going on! Such creative minds!
The children will just have to share some of their thoughts, observations and predictions of what they thought would happen when they finally got to dip their thermometers into the icy cold water. 
Curiosity, exploration and discovery took over and the children experimented in ways I never thought of, (OF COURSE!), and we all came away just a bit more excited about ‘inquiry’ and empowered with new knowledge… and a whole new set of questions! 
Unfortunately we never got the chance to record some of our discoveries/conclusions because we got run out of our classroom by several very annoying bees! At least we were able to share our experiences while sitting in a big group in the Media Center. We’ll just have to continue tomorrow and – well- who knows? The children might think of new explorations
to do with thermometers, or ice, or temperature! What a fun way to integrate math and science and formally begin our unit of study on Weather.
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Room 231 ISB | October 7th, 2009 at 10:02 pm
Hello!
We looked at your post today about exploring with thermometers and enjoyed reading about your discoveries. You have some great pictures showing what you are doing in Science. We are learning about variables in Science at the moment and trying to document our learning, our observations and our thinking too. We are going to add your classroom blog to our blogroll and we will check back often to see what you are doing!
We are a 5th grade class at ISB Bangkok, Thailand.
Please keep sharing your work!
Ms H and the students of Room 231
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piazzamannino Reply:
October 7th, 2009 at 10:11 pm
Thanks for the comment and the peeks! We will also put your site on our blogroll and follow what you are doing. We often collaborate with other classes and grade levels in our school, (last year I taught a 1st, 2nd, 3rd combination), and a good friend of mine is teaching 5th also. Check her out on my blogroll – ‘Peeler’s Upper School Blog’ -
Thanks for the encouragement!
Ms. Mannino of Peeler – Greensboro, North Carolina, USA
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apb324 | October 8th, 2009 at 6:08 am
Love the pictures! By the way, we are doing weather in our class too. Maybe we can find a project to do together!
Smiles,
Mrs. B
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piazzamannino Reply:
October 8th, 2009 at 6:41 pm
Really? Maybe we could make some kind of weather instruments together….
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briella | October 8th, 2009 at 1:59 pm
When I put my thermometer in the ice water it was not on the ice to the temperature went up.
Briella
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piazzamannino | October 8th, 2009 at 2:01 pm
yesterday my thermometer went up and down
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