The following blog post was written by four students in Mrs. Hawkins’ fourth grade classroom. Thank you to Jack, Abigail, Jason, and Georgia for their hard work and effort in crafting this post. They worked with me for the past two weeks during their lunch periods to brainstorm, write, edit, and revise the following piece. We hope you enjoy their post on the wonderful learning experience in Mrs. Hawkins’ fourth grade Science class.
Do you know how to make light with just a battery, a mini light bulb, and a wire? We do, because we are currently studying this in Mrs. Hawkins’ fourth grade classroom. Well, we are going to tell you how! First, you put the wire touching the 2 ends of the battery. After you have done so, you take the light bulb and put the silver part of the light bulb touching the battery. Then, hopefully the energy from the battery does not shock you like it did to Abby. “Ouch!” (Don’t worry, it wasn’t a real shock, just a slight burst of energy). Then, the mini light bulb will hopefully generate an orange glow. That is how you make light!
In this experiment we acted like Mad Scientists :) because… First, we looked at the objects and saw what they looked like and how we could use them to make light.
Second, we made a hypothesis about how we were going to put the objects together for them to work. Then we used the materials to experiment how to make the light bulb light up. Last, we put the objects in holders. It was an exciting and intriguing experiment.
We thought this experiment was entertaining because of the challenge to try and figure out the steps to make the bulb turn on. This is a challenge because sometimes you can make a mistake and it won’t light up!
Also, there are a few tips to make the bulbs light up. First, make sure that one end of the wire is touching the bulb. Second, make the other end touch the battery. Third, pull up all your supplies close to each other. Last, but not least, watch carefully as the energy flows through the wire. The frown on your face will turn into a huge smile when the light turns on!
We think this experiment is important for a couple of reasons. One day, if your power ever goes out, you will know how to make power again if there are wires, light bulbs, and batteries in your house. You can share your knowledge with your parents because as children, we cannot touch electrical things in the house. Also, if you would like to be a scientist when you grow up, this is one of the basic lessons to get you started. One last reason is if you have an electronic device and the wires get disconnected you will know how to shut it down so you don’t get hurt by a shock.
This is why we think Mrs. Hawkins’ Science class is really amazing and important!
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