🔬 Science

Same task. Two ways.

On the left the answer is already printed on the sheet, and nothing moves. On the right there are three glasses and a blank card — and only once the guess is written down does dropping the egg mean anything at all.

DOES THE EGG FLOAT? ANSWER GIVEN The egg floats in salt water. ANSWER UNKNOWN MY GUESS Ida, 08:10 OH! The guess was wrong. The experiment was perfect.

Drag the line in the middle to compare the two ways.

The guess — what makes it science
The answer that was already given
Water with 0, 4 and 8 teaspoons of salt
1Three identical glasses, filled equally
24 teaspoons of salt in glass two, 8 in three
3Ask the question — and do not answer it
4The child writes their guess down
5Lower the egg into one glass at a time
6Talk about the surprise, not about who won