The 36th Annual Mold Symposium was a complete success! The students did a wonderful job presenting their mold projects and had a fun afternoon of "Moldy Lunch", and "Mold Songs." The Mold Symposium was started 36 years ago by our very own former Lower School teacher Lynn Mass here at AFS and continues to be a wonderful learning experience for our students, as well as being a day filled with fun and excitement. Here's the story of our adventure with mold...
Students came in early to practice presenting their boards. They wanted to be well prepared for the day! After doing their experiments that started in January, the students prepared science boards that included all the steps of the scientific method including the question, hypothesis, list of materials, procedure, results and conclusion.
We traveled to Plymouth Meeting Friends School for the Symposium this year, along with Greene Street Friends.
Students were divided into groups of about 18 students and described their experiments to each other. There was a question and answer period for each presentation. Questions like, "If you were to change this experiment in any way, how would you change it?" and "If you were going to do a totally different experiment, what would it be?" were very popular. At the end the students spent some time discussing the similarities and differences between the experiments.
On to lunch! Students were careful to sit with students from other schools and made some new friends in the process. A damp recess followed, but that didn’t stop the students from getting outside and having fun!
Next it was time to get the students settled into the auditorium for sharing and "Mold Songs".
Each school presented their mold song. From show tunes to popular music, each school had a unique and clever song all about mold.
We closed the program with the traditional "Moldy Gifts" song (sung to the tune of Simple Gifts).
It was then time to say goodbye to new friends as another wonderful Mold Symposium drew to a close.
Click on the link to see their wonderful Mold song!
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