Category Archives: Science

Grade 3s in division 7 & 8 created beautiful Borax snowflakes overnight. Click on the snowflake above to see how you can create snowflakes like this at home!!

So…Ms. Frizzle doesn’t work at Nelson & we can’t turn a school bus into a rocket ship to take us to the moon, so…


we stepped out this week & used kinesthetic learning to help us envision the solar system & its immense size…

…& better understand how far each planet is from the sun by creating a small scale map of it—using our steps & cone planets!

At the end of our walk we were a step ahead in our knowledge of the solar system!

Can you name the planets starting from the dwarf farthest away from the sun!? Click on each picture to confirm your guess!

We had an exciting, & DElicious, start to a year full of fun Science experiments this month when we started learning about the scientific method through a partner activity full of yummy gumminess.
The story…
Fred, the gummy worm, has been spending his time boating on the lake near his home. He is not too bright, he is a worm after all. He has never learned to swim & he never wears his life preserver. The worst has finally happened! Fred’s boat has capsized & he is stuck! His life preserver is caught under the boat, but he cannot reach it without falling into the water & drowning. Can you save FRED?
Division 8’s job was to save Fred with a partner using only 4 paper clips. They could not touch Fred, the boat, or the life preserver directly with their hands, only with the 4 large paper clips they were given.
Successful students stabbed or pierced Fred with the paperclip instead of simply lifting him with them. Students tried “pushing,” “shoving” or “squeezing” Fred into his life preserver, but stretching the life preserver before putting Fred in seemed to garner the most success!
Click HERE to see more photos of our journey through the scientific method!