Contact_FullName: Linda
Area: President's Day Science
Idea:
While studying about the Presidents' faces on money, we try to
clean/shine pennies. I use 5 section trays. We give each child a penny
for each section and try different things to try to clean the pennies.
We start by asking "What do you use when you need to clean something?"
"Soap" We get the liquid soap and have them rub it on the penny. We
try different substances for each section like: ketchup, mustard, juice,
& vinegar and salt. I draw the 5 sections on a piece of paper with
pictures of each substance tried. When we are finished we talk about
which pennies came out shiny. We glue a paper shiny or dull penny in
each section to show what happened. Then I copy the page off for each
child so they have something to take home and tell their parents about.
The kids had fun and learned a new word "experiment".
