Beautiful Bubbles from BIG Ideas!
By, Jamila Monahan, Jill MacAlpine, Lisa Boate , Deb Shackell
We started the morning exploring the beautiful Creemore and Nottawasaga Public School garden, the pumpkins, egg plant and sunflowers in the morning sun, clearly this was going to be a fabulous day.
We set up bubble making stations in this enchanting spot and were eager to see what creative, interesting devices the Grade one and two students we would be working with today would come up with. We were not disappointed! The students were excited about their learning.
They had ideas and they want to see them come to life. It was interesting, to see that the exploration process was similar in each class. A handful of students would tie together a straw and a dowel with pipe-cleaners and then blow through one end. Inevitably this would create a few small bubbles. With a few questions to prod their thinking, they would go back and try again. It is exciting watching the experimentation phase, the try and fail cycle leads to problem solving that leads to 'aha' moments. There is nothing better than hear the cheers of, "We did it!" The giant smiles tell you how good it felt to create a tool that solved their problem.
These days reinforce how much we love our job, seeing the students and teachers cheer and want to keep learning even though the recess bell has gone...there is nothing better.
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