MEDFIELD CHECKING IT OUT FOR HIMSELF. AND TODAY WE ARE THINKING ABOUT MATTER. YOU GUYS KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT MATTER? TELL ME. MATTER IS SOMETHING WHICH TAKES UP SPACE AND HAS WEIGHT. ABSOLUTELY. INSIDE THE DALE STREET SCHOOL IN MEDFIELD, SCIENCE CERTAINLY MATTERS. THESE FIFTH GRADERS ARE ENJOYING A SPECIAL SCIENCE LESSON BY PREETHY MARCELO, AN EDUCATOR WITH THE NONPROFIT GROUP TRAVELING SCIENCE WORKSHOPS FROM DISCOVERY MUSEUM AND ACTON. WE SERVE 60,000 KIDS A YEAR IN THIS PROGRAM. NOW. THAT’S 3000 CLASSROOMS ALL OVER MASSACHUSETTS AND BEYOND IN ALMOST 130 CITIES AND TOWNS. THIS IS THE EPITOME OF HANDS ON LEARNING. IT’S DESIGNED TO STIMULATE INTEREST IN NOT ONLY STEM EDUCATION, BUT ALSO CAREERS IN SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING AND MATHEMATICS. THE HANDS ON LEARNING INCLUDES WORKSTATIONS LIKE SINGING SPOONS, METAL TRANSFERS, HEAT VERY EASILY AND BUBBLES OF A DIFFERENT BUOYANCY. WHEN CARBON DIOXIDE GAS COMES OUT, IT FALLS DOWN. IT’S WAY HEAVIER THAN THE AIR MIXTURE AROUND US. AND SO THOSE BUBBLES ALSO FELL DOWN AND DIDN’T FLOAT UP LIKE NORMAL BUBBLES. WE’RE BRINGING A PLACE LIKE THE DISCOVERY MUSEUM IN WITH ALL THE MATERIALS THEY HAVE AND THEIR EXPERTISE, SO BOTH THE STUDENTS CAN GET IT. AND ALSO THE TEACHERS CAN TAKE THINGS AWAY TO BRING TO THEIR CLASSROOM IS A TRUE BONUS. TRAVELING SCIENCE WORKSHOPS HAS AN AMBITIOUS GOAL OF DOUBLING THE SIZE OF ITS OFFERINGS IN THE NEXT FIVE YEARS. DOING THAT REQUIRES RAISING FUNDS AND RECRUITING MORE EDUCATORS. THERE’S NOTHING LIKE SEEING THAT SPARK OF DISCOVERY IN A YOUNG CHILD OR A KID WHO MAYBE THINKS THEY WERE NOT CAPABLE OF SOMETHING, AND THEN LEARNS THAT THEY HAVE THAT CAPACITY.
At the Dale Street School in Medfield, Massachusetts, science certainly matters. The school’s 5th graders enjoyed a special science lesson by Preeti Mostello, an educator with the nonprofit Traveling Science Workshops from the Discovery Museum in Acton.”We serve 60,000 kids a year in this program now. That’s 3,000 classrooms all over Massachusetts and beyond in almost 130 cities and towns,” said Discovery Museum CEO Marie Beam. The program is the epitome of hands-on learning. It’s designed to stimulate interest in not only STEM education, but also careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.The hands-on learning includes workstations like ‘singing spoons’ and bubbles of a different buoyancy.”When carbon dioxide gas comes out, it falls down,” Mostello said. “It’s way heavier than the air mixture around us, and so those bubbles also fell down and didn’t float up like a normal bubble.””Bringing a place like this, the Discovery Museum, in, with all the materials they have, and their expertise so that both the students can get it and also the teachers can take things away to bring to their classroom is a true bonus,” Dale St. School Principal Steve Grenham said.Traveling Science Workshops has an ambitious goal of doubling the size of its offerings in the next five years. Doing that requires raising funds and recruiting more educators.”There’s nothing like seeing that spark of discovery in a young child or a kid who, maybe, thinks they were not capable of something and then learns that they have that capacity,” Beam said.
At the Dale Street School in Medfield, Massachusetts, science certainly matters.
The school’s 5th graders enjoyed a special science lesson by Preeti Mostello, an educator with the nonprofit Traveling Science Workshops from the Discovery Museum in Acton.
“We serve 60,000 kids a year in this program now. That’s 3,000 classrooms all over Massachusetts and beyond in almost 130 cities and towns,” said Discovery Museum CEO Marie Beam.
The program is the epitome of hands-on learning. It’s designed to stimulate interest in not only STEM education, but also careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
The hands-on learning includes workstations like ‘singing spoons’ and bubbles of a different buoyancy.
“When carbon dioxide gas comes out, it falls down,” Mostello said. “It’s way heavier than the air mixture around us, and so those bubbles also fell down and didn’t float up like a normal bubble.”
“Bringing a place like this, the Discovery Museum, in, with all the materials they have, and their expertise so that both the students can get it and also the teachers can take things away to bring to their classroom is a true bonus,” Dale St. School Principal Steve Grenham said.
Traveling Science Workshops has an ambitious goal of doubling the size of its offerings in the next five years. Doing that requires raising funds and recruiting more educators.
“There’s nothing like seeing that spark of discovery in a young child or a kid who, maybe, thinks they were not capable of something and then learns that they have that capacity,” Beam said.