Haw River with 4th Graders

This time around the parachute worked out so much better than it did with the 3rd graders. My partners and I were able to tweak the activity to fit the needs of the students much better than the previous time we did the activity. My partners and I had a group of six students. With these students we had each student drop the parachute using two different materials. We were also able to question and prompt them and they more readily understood the activity when we related the parachute to skydiving. It was great to see the students engaged and having fun. I think that it is important to foster a love for science because it is definitely one of the subjects that gets overlooked in the curriculum.