Lesson at Children's Center

For my lesson at the Saint Norbert Children's Center I taught about wind. The students had races blowing on a variety of different objects. First I would ask the students which object they thought would go farther and faster. The student's usually were able to pick the correct object. Two of the objects I used was a large empty water bottle and a full small water bottle. After the students took turns blowing on the objects I transitioned to using a hair dryer. I asked the students if the objects would go farther/faster on low or high. Most of the students chose high. After blowing on the various objects with the blow dryer the students and I went outside to see the effects the wind had on various objects. Luckily this was a very windy day. We walked around outside and discussed what the wind was able to move and what it was not. We also discussed why some things moved and some did not.