Sakstagala Graduate school pupils participate in the new environment researcher forum “Students in experimentation”

One of the drivers of human development is curiosity – the desire to know, study, understand and experiment. A child may be interested in a variety of scientific discoveries and experiments, with binding interpretations of ordinary things such as electricity, vapours sinking and not sinking in water, rainbow. In March, the 3 rd class students Valters Malta and Ralph Irbeitis went to the Riga LU Natural Sciences Academic Centre to demonstrate experiments with chicken eggs “transformed or preserved!”
Many pupils had a discovery about how to distinguish a cooked egg from a lion, do not beat it (boiling well, raw – bad), and how to set it and cut it to stand vertically. The boys experimentally showed that this time spent a 12 kg of books. The participants of the event took the opportunity to determine how heavy the pupil is holding a sachet with 10 eggs. It was interesting for the participants to watch or 10 eggs weigh the weight of the jury. The pupils tried to get an egg bottle and a glass of water without touching it.
The greatest benefit for participants was the opportunity not only to present their studies, observations or experiments, but also to look at the performance of other pupils on different themes - sunglasses, ancient life in fossil, the cultivation of mines and bulbs, tornado bottles, burning in a closed environment, observation of weather etc. The pupils were able to ask questions themselves, as well as to answer the jury and the questions, to vote for the most interesting study. So much new information and exciting demonstration within three hours that allowed time to spend time in meaningful and binding fashion! Riga Natural Sciences School and LU students also took care of excursion through the new LU centre, as well as demonstrating various chemical experiments in the laboratory.
All the present received gratitude and commemorative prizes from the organisers. A great deal was Walter and Ralph's joy when they gave them a degree of sympathy.
Wish that the research spirit does not disappear in day-to-day learning hours so that students continue to observe, experiment and operate!
Anita Cercene,
Deputy Director for Education