May+17,+2011

Today was the Science Expo!!! It was an amazing experience. There were 28 students, the two of us, the cooperating teacher, and at least another 15 people looking around the room. The room was small but we managed. Two of the adolescent students were absent but all of the students from the Meadow were there. It was noisy and we had to practically bribe the students to get out of their chairs to explain their experiments but once other classes from RMS came down, they got into the swing of things. The most "popular" experiments were Patrick's slime drop, the Tug of War, Sinking Playdough and Growing Crystals. We think that some of the teachers that came down will use some of the experiments we did with the students in their classes. The teachers that came down went out of their way to compliments us which was nice to hear.

We had a few disciplinary issues today because there was such mayhem and chaos in the art room. We had to take balloons away from the people playing with them that did not do the "Balloon Rockets" experiment. A couple of times we had to ask students to return to their posters because they were not being responsible away from them. We wanted the students to go around and look at the other experiments but if they were away for a long time and visitors were looking at the poster with no one there to explain it, we asked them to return.

Overall we think that it was very successful. The students were proud to show off their work, the visitors were interested in their work, and many compliments went to the students and to us for the work.