Fourth Grade and the Oobleck
4th Grade students experimented with oobleck. As a critical thinking question, they were asked, "What would happen to NYC if oobleck began falling from the sky?"
Here are some of the responses:
"You could no longer play sports like golf or baseball because players and balls would sink into the oobleck."
"Freeze-tag will become a matter of life and death. If the person who is "it" tags you, you are going to have to stay in the same spot for a variable amount of time and in that time, you will sink."
"New York would be called Oobleck City."
"People would have to travel around on pogo sticks so that they wouldn't sink."
"Journal Entry February 7, 5091...Oobleck started falling from the sky. We have no problem getting around; we have jet-powered bubbles. I wonder how people in the 21st century would have handled this problem. Well, they could have ridden bikes. Bikes are things with wheels. They moved fast enough on oobleck that they wouldn't sink."
"Everyone would run in place when waiting for a bus, so that they didn't sink."
"Building small, water-proof domes in different locations all over Central Park, would help animals who lost their habitats, get new ones."
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