All Ages Memorable experiments and activities

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lindbergh

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One of the things that make science subjects a lot of fun are the experiments and activities that are done in class. This helped keep the interest of the students and made them think out of the box. One of the most memorable activities that we have done in class was when our teacher challenged us to go to the third floor of a building and throw an egg from that height to the ground without breaking the egg. We were only equipped with some paper and straws.

What were some of the memorable activities in your science classes?
 
H.C. Heartland said:
My most memorable activity in science class would have to be the standard Frog dissection. I know that is Biology, but it falls under the category I think.
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Ah yes, we did this before too in my second year in high school. Before we dissected frogs, our teacher first collected frogs and scattered them all over the classroom. She told us that we should be able to catch one frog before we proceed to experimenting with them. Most of the girls shrieked. It took us the whole afternoon for every girl to catch one frog.
 
My daughter took a Botany class this year. Together, we dissected a flower. I had no idea that the flowers had reproductive parts. We got to see the ovaries and staple of the flower. It is amazing how intricate the inside of a flower is.
 
I do agree that science experiments can be quiet exciting and interesting for students especially those that tickle one's imagination and creativity. I guess the most memorable parts for me were those times when we had to submit our individual feasibility studies and science experiments back in high school. All those sleepless nights of researching and going through books from the library at that time were tedious but very fulfilling in the end.
 
Not so much an experiment as it was just a silly activity - but we made ice cream in chemistry class before. That was a fun day!

And in biology class, we had to dissect rats. To our surprise, one of my classmates managed to dissect a rat that was pregnant, so we took out the womb of that poor rat as well and checked out the fetus.
 
Kristen07 said:
My daughter took a Botany class this year. Together, we dissected a flower. I had no idea that the flowers had reproductive parts. We got to see the ovaries and staple of the flower. It is amazing how intricate the inside of a flower is.
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Dissecting flowers, plants and -in general- elements belonging to the plant kingdom resonates more with me than doing it with dead animals.

It is an incentive for certain children wonder what would happen if they do it with a live animal? And, of course, there would be those who actually go and perform it.

If you ask me, I think it is a thousand times better to stimulate scientific learning without touching the dissection of animals.
 
My most memorable experiences were in high school. We were really inspired by the physics teacher who started an experiment with the composure of a professor. As unexpected experimental phenomena started to manifest, he transformed into a wag and was all over exciting us and transfixing us with comments that made him look like a sort of a magician. We looked forward to his experiments and this really enriched the learning experience. The key is to make the learner feel at home and at peace as well as making the lesson entertaining.
 
I remember the flower dissection experiment, which helped us understand the pollen grains and how bees spread them around. We were even taken to our school garden and observed how bees feed on the flowers first hand. We had seen this plenty of times before, but then we actually saw the actual process which was happening that is the distribution of pollen grains rather then just looking at bees moving around flowers.
 
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