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High Touch High Tech of BC
Lunar Lisa guides Jaeny Baik, host of CBC's "Living Vancouver," through some fun science experiments.
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It's Stormy Inside
Scientist Krissy , of a group called High Touch-High Tech, shows young students at Morehead Montessori School in Durham the cycle of water on Earth in an indoor lesson about weather.
DURHAM - The sun may have been beaming Thursday, but inside Morehead Montessori School, students witnessed swirling tornadoes, volatile hailstorms and soft, fluffy snow. But the snow was made of a white powdery compound, and the tornadoes were miniwhirlpools inside plastic bottles. The simulations, which catered to 4-, 5-, and 6-year-olds, seemed like a highly popular way to show how weather affects the Earth. The experiments came to the school through a national group called High Touch-High Tech, which brings hands-on learning to schools across the country.
Clad in a white lab coat, the visiting meteorologist known as "Scientist Krissy" created a real cloud right before the students' eyes. The children were catching on, judging by the way they wiggled their fingers to imitate water vapor rising toward the sky. "Evaporation ... condensation ... precipitation!" they chanted. "Precipitation" evoked a particularly joyous interpretation, allowing the students to fall upon their teacher's green carpet like wild, bouncing raindrops.
Then, Scientist Krissy demonstrated a hailstorm by putting an effervescent tablet into a cup containing water and a handful of tiny pieces of pasta, she said. The bubbling action tossed the little "hailstones" around like real hail gets bumped around in a cloud.
Pretty soon, the students got cups of what soon would resemble snow. "Remember not to touch your cup or the experiment might not work," Scientist Krissy said. A small amount of water was added to each cup, then poof! The powder turned to a cool, spongy, snowlike material. Taniya Johnson, 6, got so carried away "It's squishy," she said, pouring the substance on the floor and pressing her hand into it.
The "in-school field trip" was an alternative to an annual pumpkin-patch visit on which Morehead students usually embark.
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