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College Students
Help Bring Science to Life at Eastwood Elementary School
Photographs and text by
Sue
Kropp
DECEMBER 10, 1999--In September three teachers at Eastwood Elementary School received grants from Oberlin College and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Outreach Program to initiate innovative science projects in their classrooms. Oberlin College science majors helped the Eastwood teachers develop curricula and lead presentations. Recently they conducted some experiments with the children.
Stephanie Jones, a senior from Thorton, Colorado, helps a second grader from Eastwood conduct an experiment. Jones attached a small buzzer to a piece of wire and pressed the ends of the wire against two positive battery terminals. The experiment was a success: Jones set off a buzzer and the student learned about electric currents.
Andrew Hankinson, a senior from Hyde Park, Vermont, uses batteries, wires, nails, and paper clips to build a magnet with a group of children.
Andrea Ahne, a senior from Carbondale, Illinois, helps a group of second graders attach a small night light to a lemon. The lemon failed to channel enough energy to illuminate the light bulb. Hankinson took the lemons to the Oberlin College Physics Lab, where he discovered that the lemons used for the experiment weren't acidic enough to generate sufficient voltage for the experiment.
