WINSLOW TWP. — Winslow Township School No. 1 has quality education down to a science. For American Education Week, Nov. 16-20, the school hosted a "Mad Scientist" who put on a wacky, interactive show engaging Winslow Township School District's (WTSD) youngest learners. "I light up for science. Mad Scientists gear their programs toward what the kids are learning in...
WINSLOW TWP. -- Winslow Township School No. 1 has quality education down to a science. For American Education Week, Nov. 16-20, the school hosted a "Mad Scientist" who put on a wacky, interactive show engaging Winslow Township School District's (WTSD) youngest learners.
"I light up for science. Mad Scientists gear their programs toward what the kids are learning in the classrooms, and they love it," said Winslow Township School No. 1 Principal Sharon Thomas Galloway. "We want to tap into their love for science at this age, and their curiosity. We want to make them interested in what's going on in the world."
Kindergartener Zoe Tomlin experiments with a hair-raising Van de Graaff generator during American Education Week at Winslow Township School No. 1. Mad Science is a leading science enrichment provider that delivers unique, hands-on experiences for children that are as entertaining as they are educational. For more than 30 years, Mad Science programs have encouraged scientific literacy in children in an age when science is as vital as reading and writing.
The forty-five minute "Wacky Science" program from "Radioactive" Rick Schnee, part of the Mad Science Group based in Pennington, featured many different aspects of science on Nov. 18.
Students learned about:
- Flash paper, including how fast it burns
- Polymers, when one of their classmates made a batch of green slime
- The interaction between Styrofoam and acetone, when Radioactive Rick used a concoction to melt the Styrofoam face off the Wicked Witch of the West
- Static electricity, through the use of a Van de Graaff generator
- Dry ice, through several experiments, including "eating" its gaseous form!
The 300 students from Kindergarten through third-grade were amazed.
