Science bus visits Eastside school
Published 9:48 am Tuesday, January 12, 2016
Leader photo/CRAIG HAUPERT
Braelyn Benjamin puts her hand near the carbon dioxide gas coming from a cup of water after a piece of dry ice was dropped inside the cup. Classmate Neriah Stephens backs away as a harmless amount of gas bubbles out.
Neriah Stephens and Braelyn Benjamin watched in amazement when a piece of dry ice was placed in a cup of water, causing the dry ice (frozen carbon dioxide) to turn into gas and bubble out.
The experiment took place in the ETHOS Science Center’s Science 2 Go Bus, which visited Eastside Connections School in Niles Thursday.
Stephens and Benjamin are in Mrs. Sheeley’s first-grade class, which learned how molecules behave differently at various temperatures.
Science 2 Go is a mobile science laboratory designed for grades kindergarten through eight. It contains six lab stations and some state of the art technology including a computer for each station. The Science 2 Go bus is operated through a joint effort by Elkhart community Schools and the not for profit, ETHOS (Encouraging Technology and Hands On Science).
