The SUPERMARKET SCIENCE II students enjoyed experimenting!

Bailey Katsumata-Smith said, “I like to use the funnels.”

Isaac Johnson said, “My favorite tool to use is the Bunsen burner.”  A Bunsen burner is a small steel rod with a flame on top used in scientific experiments. 

The teacher, Ms. Melissa Woods, said, “I love to see the kids doing the experiments.”

The class made Kool-Aid into playdough, too. This is how to make it:  You need 1 pack of bright colored Kool-Aid, 1 cup of flour, half a cup of warm water, and 3 teaspoons of oil; mix everything together. 

They were also did the egg-in-a-bottle experiment, which was amazing. What you need to do this experiment with parental supervision is: 1 egg, a glass bottle, and a flaming piece of paper. The flaming piece of paper needs to use all of the air, so no air can be allowed to get in. That way the egg gets pulled into the bottle.

Next they made volcanoes with baking soda, vinegar, and food coloring. Last they made balloons blow up with baking soda and vinegar.

SUPER SCIENCE was a class with many projects where kids found out much about nature. Carole and Brandon Zarzyczny, a mother-son duo, taught this class full of second and third graders.

Many of the students enjoyed this class. Meredith Griggs explained that she took the course “because I knew we’d be doing cool stuff like making volcanoes.”

“I like it because we get to do fun projects,” Alexandra McQuillen said about Super Science.

These “fun projects” included making explosive and regular volcanoes, studying paleontology, finding fossils, and making bird feeders.

They also heard a lecture about owls. Many varieties of stuffed owls were brought by Mr. Wayne Laubscher to show the class.

In addition this afternoon class participated in several different field trips including one to Montour Preserve’s fossil pit and one to the Academic Center’s fossil museum.