Over the course of four weeks, students will expand their skills in:
-- Discussing atomic structure
-- Understanding material behavior
-- Exploring the history and nature of science
-- Asking scientific questions
-- Conducting scientific experiments requiring accurate measurements

I am a mechanical engineer and engineering educator who loves thinking about how the world works. I'm constantly looking at how human curiosity leads to practical applications, and I look forward to exploring questions with your learners!

All learners are encouraged to participate in our class discussion about what kinds of questions they would like to explore in our 4 weeks together. Additionally, there will be a kitchen-friendly hands-on experiment activity each week where students can extend their learning. These activities will come from a growing repository of class experiments and will be posted in the classroom no later than 24 hours after our class meeting. 

Some experiments like "Inside the Atom" benefit from an adult setting up the inquiry to preserve a sense of scientific mystery. These files will be labeled with "ADULTS Read First" in the title. Adults should discuss kitchen safety with their learners in order to ensure a safe environment for experiments. To complete the hands-on experiments, students should have access to a digital kitchen scale that can measure in grams, measuring spoons, an eye dropper or medication syringe, a thermometer that can measure temperatures in air and liquids, and a set of at least 5 identical opaque canisters (such as film canisters).

50 minutes per week in class, and an estimated 1 - 2 hours per week outside of class.