Volcanoes...strictly for school use!

They are kids and they come up with ideas! All the time! The idea that had settled itself in their minds at that period was to make volcanoes!
They weren't interested in seeing images and videos, the point was that they saw the red lava flowing in front of their eyes!
The day when a student brought from home his mum's...cooking tray to build in it his own volcano, I realised that it couldn't wait any longer...
Venture "Volcano" so begins...

What we needed:

A bottle of orange juice (which was our "volcano") and clay to build its slopes as life-like as possible!

...science time had come...

We put some cooking soda, some water and a little washing-up liquid in a small funnel and into the volcano...but nothing happened!

Something is needed to make the soda foam to create our lava!

What would that be?

Vinegar (with a few drops of red ink to make our lava red)!

...and the result was something like this:

 

This was one of the two volcanoes that was made by the 5th
grade students (school year 2009-2010)

Original post by Maria Priniotaki

The Tree of Education

I don't know if we should post older projects or, maybe, if we should put our efforts into filling our websail with new ones! Since it is still so early in the schoolyear, and we are still at the planning and organising stageand since the older ones are made from kids for kids, framed with love, we believe that they can  constitute the driving force for the future activities...

"The Tree of Education", inspired by Action Aid's Global Week for Education "The Big Read" was made by the pupils of the 4th Grade (2008-2009).

Education is a "living" organism, a "tree" that needs strong roots and a strong trunk to bear fruit; it also needs our love and care to be protected by aspiring "saws" which want to hurt it...

A window to the...universe!

A picture of the 4th grade students (2008-2009), under the guidance of Mrs. Maria. I'm posting it because this is how I imagine our blog-a window to the universe...

Original post by Dimitris Alexakis