My first summer camp at Spartanburg Day School starts on Monday and I’ve lovingly titled it “Griffin Mythbusters.”
The setup goes something like this. The ~20 5-9th Graders that have signed up and I will start Monday by hammering out a good urban myth to examine. It might be something covered on the TV show or it might be something completely local (which is what I hope). I’m giving them the choice, though.
Then we’ll split up into a couple of build teams, a research team, and a supplies team. They’ll rotate through the teams throughout the week as we work on models to explore the myth.
By Friday, I’m hoping that we’ll have successfully nailed down the best way to do a major demonstration to either confirm or bust the myth in question.
We’ll be live blogging (and reflective blogging) the whole thing here:
Griffin Mythbusters – Spartanburg Day School Summer 2010: “We’re busting (or confirming) urban myths using science at Spartanburg Day School.”
I chose to use Posterous as the platform for our site since it allows for easy collaboration, team members can post quickly via their mobiles on the go and they can send things out to their Facebook or Twitter profiles if they’d like to share what they’re up to with their friends.
Of course the main reason to do all of this is to plant the seed of scientific method into their heads without making them memorize a chart. And to blow things up.
I’m excited.
Grab the Griffin Mythbusters feed if you’d like to follow along and see how things go on our one week adventure.