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On Thursday, 27th of October, I went to school in Philadelphia which 2 hours from Clinton, the way was very crowded. The school was very old and rickety. It was different than any school I have visited in US. I think it was poor schools and there is a big difference between wealthy and poor schools. The students were annoying and didn’t listen. The school organization and learning environments make hug different for student’s attitude.

I met Dr. Hunt with his wife, Catherine, in Philadelphia Elementary School. Dr. Hunt had in his car the stuff for the Science Fun Days. Also, some teachers in that school were waiting for Dr. Hunt. After that, we carried the stuff to the cafeteria. There are many tables put in it. We put on each table the name for the activity, which must put it on it. I help Dr. Hunt set up of scientific experiment. Dr. Hunt was not very well he needed more help. Later, some students came to school as volunteers from high school to do the scientific experiments for the students at tomorrow. Dr. Hunt and I explained the scientific experiments for the students' volunteers. They will teach students in fifth-grade. The student's volunteers were excited to do so for tomorrow. And I use my last experience to teach the students. In the end, we deiced to come to the school early next day to be ready for the students.

Friday morning, we came early and met Dr. the volunteers’ students were ready and very excited to teach. The 6th grade students were ready to learn and they were divided to groups so that each group had particular time. Each group had four students and had an individual time to learn the experience. The experiments grabbed students’ attention, and made them think effectively to find out why that happened. Some of them were excited to know how it happened and way but some was not. My experience was that How Does the Bottle Rocket Work?

When students arrive at my station, carefully I place the cardboard rocket on the bottle rocket launcher. I discussed with students Newton’s Third law of Motion and how it is demonstrated in this activity. After that, I have students decide on and adjust the trajectory angle in a way that they think will make the rocket fly into the bucket. Pump approximately 7 pounds of pressure into the bottle using the foot pump. I asked students what other variables beside the volume of air in the bottle can effect the launch of the rocket. Finally, let students take turns adjusting the rocket variables that they predict will cause the rocket to land in the bucket. At the end of the students went back to their classes, then we and the high school students carried stuff back to Dr. Hunt’s car.

It was good and enjoyable experience.