The other weekend I taught a 3 hour Saturday class for 4th, 5th, and 6th graders on rockets. We shot pop out of 2 liter bottles by dropping Mentos candy into the pop. We built water bottle rockets and then launched those rockets. We also messed around for a few minutes with a Van deGraff generator. It was a ton of fun!
Out of 18 students there were 16 boys and 2 girls. Just 2 girls? Are you kidding me? Come on parents, stop discriminating against your daughters. Just because it's a class on rockets and science doesn't mean it isn't for your daughter. My daughters are too young for this class, but they would have loved to have been there building their own rockets.
If you are the parent of a daughter, step up and introduce science to her! It's HER future that's at stake, not yours! Don't succumb her to the stereotype that girls are bad at math and science. They are NOT! They have the same interest and ability in math and science as boys. They simply get turned away by gender discriminating parents and teachers. Don't be one of those people!
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