Modeling Like a Scientist

Modeling is an important part of a scientist's work.  As students dig deeper into understanding how they see things, it will be important that they can represent and explain this phenomenon.  Today we had a discussion about what makes a model, as well as thinking about the model that Mrs. Brinza developed to show how the light is visible from a light bulb.  We worked through identifying strengths and weaknesses of her model, which used playdoh to represent the light source and toy cars as the rays of light.

​ Our next steps will be to develop our very own models of how we see an object!