ONTARIO — Students in Alyssa Nugent’s kindergarten class have teamed up with their fifth grade buddies from Lisa Huml’s class at Stingel Elementary to find a use for leftover holiday candy canes.
Once a week in January and February, the buddies have gotten together to sharpen their scientific skills and perform experiments on the minty and fruity flavored treats.
The fifth graders have mentored their kindergarten buddy through measurement tasks, including using a cane as an alternative form of measurement, converting those measurements to inches, estimating, weighing, and using the five senses to describe and observe the candy as a scientist might.
The students also tested the properties of matter by trying to make the canes dissolve in three temperatures of water, different solutions and with a bang of vinegar and baking soda.
The students worked hard to keep a detailed scientific lab journal, and celebrated with enjoying a candy cane of their choice at the end of the experiments.
