EXPERIMENT AIDED EXPLANATIONS IS ONE THING KIDS LOVE

Good day lovely hivers and home edders, how are you all doing. This is my first time in this community and I'm so glad to be here.
I am a home tutor and also have been Educating teenagers and kids for some years now. Although I've always taught my little cousins and neighbours at home, I started home Educating officially in the year 2019, after the outbreak of the Corona virus (covid -19), during those times when schools were shut down and movements were restricted.

I carried out home tutoring for kids in my neighborhood who could no longer go to school because movements were restricted and it was really amazing how they grasped all I taught them. It was an amazing experience and I was emboldened to continue home Educating afterwards.

I teach at home and also help children struggling with understanding what they were taught in school. I try to explain very difficult concepts in the simplest way possible so they can understand and assimilate.

Meet one of my students, Her name is Jade.

I was teaching Jade about volume of shapes and substances, and how to find the volume of shapes and substances.

In our lesson we had learnt that ;
Volume is the amount of space occupied by a substance

We also learned about how we could find the volume of shapes using their different formulae . Eg

shape.	formulae
cuboid	Length *Breadth * Height
cube	length * length * length
cylinder	π * radius * radius * height

Jade was a bit confused, she said she thought volumes only had to do with liquids, she wanted to know how to find the volume of some irregularly shaped substances like a small stone found on the ground.

I explained to her that solids occupy space same way liquids occupy space.

To explain this better, I had to carry out a little experiment with some items we could find at home .
The aim of this experiment is to show how both liquids and solid have volume, and also how to measure the volume of an irregularly shaped substance .

For the experiment we used ;

• A transparent glass cup containing water and the stone whose volume we wish to calculate.

over here you can see the stones and you can also see the glass of water. The water has volume because it has occupied some space in the glass cup. And some more space is left in the top unoccupied.

Because of the fact that the glass used is not graduated, I asked her to place her finger on the water level. As you can see, her fingers are pointing directly on the water level.

I then put the stone in the glass of water and then the water level increased. You can see the water level now above her hand.

I explained to her that the water level increased because the stone has volume and has occupied some more space(volume). The amount of water above where her finger was pointing is the volume of the stone put in the water. Since we are not in the lab and the glass is not graduated. We can not get the numerical value of the volume of the stone, but the value can be gotten by pouring out the extra water above her finger into any container that is graduated.

She was really pleased with the explanation and with our little experiment. Children love activities and experiments. They're very inquisitive, curious and adventure in nature. Adding some little experiments to the learning process just makes it exciting, fun and less boring, and it also fosters understanding and assimilation of what is being taught.

Thanks to our little experiment, Jade understood the concept of volume better.
She also learnt how to get the volume of irregularly shaped objects.

Thank you so much for stopping by. I want to also specially thank this community @homeedders and also I want to @missdeli , @romeskie and @cmplxty. There posts are very informative and it inspired me to create mine. Thanks everyone. God bless you all