Leprechaun Experiments

I'm guessing your students' eyes will be smiling when they see these kids' scientific moves...how cute, and what great role models for academic curiosity! Not that we here in the flooded Northeast want to do any more mixing of St. Patrick's day and WATER, as is shown in these experiments.

Thanks to Steve Spangler at Making Science Fun for this video clip.

Language Lens

• This video would be a great complement to an experiment of your own, such as this one. Experiments are a perfect context to practice listing materials and using temporal and causal language.
• Try the "Who Wants to be a Millionare" sentence game- kids earn increasing amounts of "money" as they create a sentence (in this case, about the video) using and, or, but, when, because, so...