Cupcakes and Magnets... :-)

We had another great cooking project today--decorating fall cupcakes with Mrs. Jones. Students rotated through three stations: cooking, choice time, and a magnet experiment.

Today, the purpose of our science experiment was to test the strength of magnets through five different materials: paper, cloth, aluminum foil, cardboard, and plastic wrap. Ask your child if any of these materials shielded the power of the magnet. Students are learning to make a prediction and then test their predictions. It can be hard not to change the prediction when the result is different, but I keep telling students that scientists often make incorrect predictions and it's how they learn. :-)