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Chandler program reminds students that science is fun
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Kerry Fehr-Snyder
The Arizona Republic
11/19/2011
A young student flashes a strobe light on a three-blade fan, tricking kids' eyes into seeing colors.
Minutes later, a glow ball lights up when two fourth-graders at Patterson Elementary School in Chandler touch its sides and conduct electrical energy from their bodies.
Then a balloon shrivels after it's dipped into liquid nitrogen, showing how heat is stored and transferred.
This is fun science, and if proponents have their way, such experiments will provide a glimpse into the future of education in Arizona.
More than 100 Advanced Placement chemistry students at Basha High School in Chandler have been trained to spread the word of science to fourth-graders throughout the Chandler Unified School District. The Science Is Fun program was developed at Arizona State University, with a goal of creating demonstrations that "encourage a student's natural fascination with scientific phenomena."
