SCIENCE FUN -- NOV 6, 2013

SCIENCE FUN

NOV. 6, 2013

Science is a favorite around our homeschool!  David was doing a lab on solutes, solvents and mixtures. Rachel decided that she must join in the fun!

Life is fun!

SCIENCE DAY: Sept 2013

SCIENCE DAY

SEPT 2013

We are having fun with our science curriculum!!!

Rachel, Rebecca and Bethany make barometers and take weather measurements daily for a week!

David gathers data from his experiment with light, 

temperature and germination!

MILL WORM SCIENCE LAB -- AUGUST 15, 2013

MILL WORM SCIENCE LAB

AUGUST 15, 2013

After cake decorating, we moved onto bugs.  Daniel had a science experiment involving "millworms" but I had no idea where you found mill worms.  Thanks to some help from Mr. Google, I called the pet store, learned how they were purchased and requested Dad to make a stop off at the pet store for some live mill worms.  It was an interesting event and 

some of the kids named their little friends!

I made sure that they were all removed from the house at the end so that I didn't have an infestation start in our food storage!!!  We all agreed that the millworms did not like the frozen paper towel and they preferred the moist and dark "climate."

SOLE: HOW DOES A SUBMARINE WORK??

SUBMARINES

MARCH 1, 2013

Today we tried out a new approach.  Today, instead of handing the kids an instruction sheet for building a submarine with the supplies that I had purchased, we took a different approach, thanks to the inspiration of a video produced on TED TALKS at this link:

 "Build a School in the Cloud"

We started our session by watching a short video.

It was pretty cool and got the kids attention!

I then informed the kids that their adventure was to learn how submarines work, to build a model with the supplies that were out on our kitchen counter, then show what they learned on a poster.

There was some frustration from a few at first because they weren't "hand fed" but eventually they joined the others in their excitement and it was really amazing to see what they learned through their "Student Organized Learning Environment (SOLE)."

We are going to do something like this at least a couple of times a month and hopefully more as I get better at teaching this way!

Bethany jumped in, Rachel is a bit stressed at the beginning ---

Benjamin took the "English Grandmother" role

Supplies for the submarine model

Asking questions and gathering knowledge

Bethany, Daniel and David with their submarine model

 Joseph Rachel and Rebecca had a hard time getting their sub to sink completely.

Rachel would not give up and  despite "defeat" from siblings, she kept at it with her ideas and .....

It worked!  Joseph saw her success and said, "How did you do that?"

A great success moment for Rachel!

Mason wants to have a try, too!!!

Rachel and Rebecca working on their sub model

Watching it sink on its own as it fills up with water.

Rachel blowing air into her submarine to displace the water so it will rise up again!

 Working on their poster!