What’s Right With Our Schools: Tennessee Aquarium Mad Scientists Week
CHATTANOOGA, TN (WDEF) – Summer learning can be a fluid situation at the Tennessee Aquarium. For Mad Scientists week, campers created rockets fueled with water and Alka-Seltzer. Learning really lifted off.
Jen Collier is the Manager of Learning and Engagement at the Tennessee Aquarium.
She says, “This is one of our Summer Camp weeks. So, this is our Mad Scientist Week. So, this week they’re doing all sorts of exploration about the scientific method and nature, and how those two build off of each other. So, we’re doing lots of different experiments. Behind me they’re doing their rocket launch experiment.
Collier continues, “So, it really helps them to start to process how the world around them works and be able to think outside the box and learn how to ask questions, because that’s really the most important skill you can learn is how to ask questions and then how to try to figure out the answers to those questions. Definitely got a little Math, but don’t tell them they haven’t figured that out yet.”
Cason Hallman attends Oakwood Christian Academy.
Cason says, “When I get older and get back to school, it’ll help me in class. I’ll know more and, it’ll give me more knowledge, and I can learn, and I can intend to go on and learn more.”
Camp Counselor D’Lyn Keiser explains, “Today we are launching rockets using water, Alka-seltzer tablets, and um air, and what it’s about today’s is about experimentation with water.”
Jen Collier concludes, “We really want them to have that hands-on experience and being able to learn about all those skills that they learn in school, they bring here with them, and then hopefully the skills that they learn here they bring with them back to school, and that will continue with them throughout their life, but it’s really about seeing how those things work in the practical everyday life.”
