Scientist with a Twist

Last week, our class welcomed in our first Scientist with a Twist!  Thank you to Mrs. S and her family for doing such an amazing job!  Mrs. S and her child presented the Aesop fable The Crow and the Pitcher.  This is the story of a crow who is thirsty, but is unable to reach the water in the bottom of a pitcher.  He then begins to find a way to make the water come to him by placing pebbles into the pitcher and watching the water rise, demonstrating water displacement!  Here are our Scientists with a Twist reading the story and performing the experiment!  A rubber band was placed at the pitcher's  original water level to show how it had changed and a stuffed bird was used to see if the water had reached the point where it could drink!

We discussed ways we could try this experiment at home and decided the best way was to watch the water in your bathtub rise after you get in it.  This way you are what is causing the water displacement while observing it at the same time!

 Thank you again to Mrs. S and her family!