If you cover your hand with Crisco oil then submerge it in ice water, what do you learn? Pieter B. Coeymans Universal Pre-K students got their hands dirty, to answer this question. What they found out – this experiment shows how animals with blubber can survive frigid temperatures.
Students were happily engaged in various science experiments that showed how different animals survive during the winter. Jennifer Fiske-Jaskolka, a Ravena-Coeymans-Selkirk Middle School teacher and UPK mom, planned the tests for the students to teach about hibernation, migration and adaptation. The class also glued cotton balls above a bear cave, counted animals on a math sheet and were given a take-home book, Where do animals sleep in the Winter?