Herman Tweed, the lovable classroom pet hamster at Fuddlebrook School, made an appearance this weekend at the Fuddlebrook launch party for children. Needless to say, from the children’s expressions, he was a hit!
The story, Who Stole Herman Tweed, introduced the Fuddlebrook star. In this story, Herman goes missing, and the students in Mrs. Wigglebum’s class have to solve the mystery using the science process skills. These include:
- Observation
- Science begins with observation. We observe using all five of our senses to gather information about an object or phenomenon. It can be a qualitative (Herman is fuzzy) or quantitative (Herman weighs two pounds). The more descriptive our observations are, the better we can communicate them.
- Communication
- Taking our observations and ideas and talking, writing, drawing, making models, etc, to represent that idea to others.
- Classification
- We classify our observations into different categories, which helps us to not forget new information! We mostly categorize by similarities, differences, and how they relate to each other.
- Prediction
- What do we think happened? What might happen in the future? Predicting is all about what we think might be happening based on our observations above.
- Inference
- To infer, we connect all the dots above to make an explanation of our observations. This isn’t just a guess, and can be made from multiple observations!
- Conclusion
- Taking everything above to form a logical outcome. What’s the conclusion of Who Stole Herman Tweed? Well you’ll have to read to find out!
Besides reading the story, the children also got to try experiments from the new series including Mrs. Wigglebum’s Love Potion. This was a great way to learn about physical reactions under the guise of figuring out who was “in love.”
The evening ended with cupcakes and a group picture with Herman Tweed!
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