Candid Student Reports

The following (emails) were written by members of the Saturday Explorations Club during the first session of the program. Some elements may have been removed for various reasons, but the text that remains is in the student's own words.

Today we did explored with jumping to conclusion. 
We tryed to guess if the eggs we used were raw, 
hard boiled, hallow or had water in them.  We also 
guessed how many paper clips were in the paper 
clip box. I guessed 100 and I was exactly right.
	I think this was very fun and suggest that some 
science teachers should try this out with your class.

Kati

Today we observed and learned why not to jump to 
conclusions. We found that that office max ripped 
us off with paper clips and could of gotten 50 
dollars if we guessed what was inside eggs. I was 
kept interested for the whole time and liked the 
experiments. We found out how to use the computers 
as dice. I went all the way up to 16384  and found 
out the average. I glad to have come and I'm going 
to have some fun with the tricks that I learned. 

Cam

Today we did couple of explorations of jumping to 
conclusions.  We did an experiment with eggs and 
how we jumped to conclusions with saying it was 
or it was not a raw egg.  2 of the eggs were raw, 
2 were hard boiled, one was filled with water and 
one was hollow.  I was folled on the water and 
hollow ones because he did not let us feel the hollow 
one and I thought the one filled with water was raw.  
After this we did some jumping to conclusions 
with money.  Like how many heads were on a 
quarter which was 15 and how many times USA , 
United States, or United States of America which 
was over 25.  After this we guessed how many 
paper clips were in a paper clip box.  The box  
said 100 but in all we counted 100, 101, 103,  
and 104 in different boxes.   Then we did an 
exploration with random numbers and the 
average of those random numbers.  We did this 
with a dice.   Then we got on the computers I did 
1037 random numbers of 1-6.  Then we found the 
average and found how the more numbers the closer 
it came to 3.5 which was the average of 1,2,3,4,5, 
and 6.   

Ryan

 Today we were taught how not to jump into 
conclusions. We took eggs and we were supposed 
to look at them and expeirament with them to 
figure out what kind of egg it was.(either hard 
boiled,raw or hollow)He did not tell us what 
choices we had.If we guessed all 6 eggs correctly 
we got 50 dollars.I got 2 wrong.Then we were 
supposed to guess how many paper clips were in a 
box that said 100 paper clips count.We found that 
their were approximately 100.Out of 4 boxes only 
1 had exactly 100. I had a great time and all of 
the things we did were fun.

Helen