Starch and Glue

When doing this experiment I was thinking back to my past experiences with doing this. I really couldn’t remember how it felt so I was really excited to get to play with it again. I posed a few questions for myself- would it bounce, what would happen if I added food coloring, and what would happen to the consistency if I added glitter. To explore these, I did each thing. I bounced the ball and it bounced a little. I added green food coloring and it became really green. I then added the the glitter and the consistency stayed. The way that others influenced me was when they were adding other things to their experiment. When Nooema added glitter, I thought that would be cool. When I look at the pictures of me smiling I just remember thinking how awesome this was and how it brought me back to my youth and how I could incorporate this into my classroom as well as into my program this year.Well since I had done this experiment before, I was building off my old experiences. By doing this I think that I prohibited myself from expanding my knowledge. I didn’t allow myself to explore what other things would do to the experiment. I did explore a little inquiry when adding the glitter and food coloring and by attempting to see if it would bounce. The new experience that was created was the experience of adding things to the experiment. We weren’t ever allowed to add anything to our starch and glue before so to do it this time was fun. I remembered this experiment because I had had a previous learning experience. The importance of experience while you learn is that by experiencing something once, you are more likely to remember the concepts that were taught with that experiment.