BCS Advantage Magazine Special Edition #9 | Page 18

Tasty Lessons in Science
By Stacia Harris, Communications Department
The smell of warm chocolate filled Ms. Wolf’s class as her fifth-graders at Bell Elementary learned about
heat conduction and convection- new concepts and a new vocabulary for these students. But, thanks to a
creative lesson, it’s one they won’t soon forget.
“I like the smell,” said Kamille McGee. “I like to see which way the heat traveled; it was just fun!”
For this experiment, students built a tin foil bridge suspended over a votive candle. They lined the foil
with chocolate chips. Then, students placed a votive candle under