Amy Wearne found herself doing something she thought she’d never do: encouraging her fifth grade class to join the viral trend of flipping water bottles.

Usually, she has to tell her kids to throw away the plastic bottles because it disrupts the classroom. But during Ramsey Magnet School of Science’s science day on Friday, she helped her students perfect the art form, using physics.

Every year, the elementary school spends a day where students rotate classrooms and do different science experiments or activities they normally don’t get to do. Science day lets teachers get creative with lesson plans and experiments and it helps them get to know students who aren’t in their class.

“They’re obsessed with bottle flipping, it’s like an extracurricular activity for them,” Wearne said, as her students wrote their predictions for the bottle flipping experiment. “So I thought it would intrigue them to explore the science behind it.”

Students went through the scientific method and tried many combinations to make the perfect throw. They used different quantities of water in the bottle, they tossed the bottles with different amounts of force, and threw the bottles at varying distances.

Farther down the hall, one classroom was experimenting with the laws of motions and another was making topographic maps with Play-Doh.

One group learned about density by making lava lamps. The group first experimented to see which liquids sink or float when paired with other liquids. Students got to pour syrup, rubbing alcohol, water and eggnog into a container to see how the substances would layer themselves.

A few classes got to build electric circuits; finding out which materials are conductors and which ones are insulators.

“We use electricity every day and they don’t know how it works,” said Anna Wilson, a fifth-grade teacher. “This isn’t in the curriculum so it’s nice to fill that gap.”

Violet Andrews, a fifth-grader, said she gets excited for science day. Before making electric circuits, she got to learn about water waste and how it contaminates Lake Coeur d’Alene.

“I like the science,” she said, “and I like how when we go see different teachers, they teach the science differently.”