Experiment 7: Magnetic Attraction, Sorting
LD had more fun with this when I told him I was timing him. Thesecond time round he had to see if he’d beat his previous time(and he did 1min40 down to 57seconds).
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LD had more fun with this when I told him I was timing him. Thesecond time round he had to see if he’d beat his previous time(and he did 1min40 down to 57seconds).
Ages 2-6: Preschool and Toddler Activities / Arts and Crafts / Science Experiments
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published January 4, 2010
We studied the Milky Way Galaxy and planets a bit lastyear, but since this was covered in the Montessori “FirstGreat Lesson” that we presented (in our own version)over the weekend, I thought the kids might enjoy doing acouple pictures related to what we talked about. Links about the Montessori Great Lessons (geared forearly elementary aged kids): http://www.moteaco.com/albums.htmlhttp://missbarbara.net/greatlessons.htmlhttp://www.montessoricentre.com/GL/The%20Great%20Lesson%201%20-%20secular%20version.htm
Ages 2-6: Preschool and Toddler Activities / Arts and Crafts / Science Experiments
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published January 4, 2010
We did two art projects to show the spiral shaped, MilkyWay Galaxy. One was simply sparkles and shiny starspasted onto black paper. For the white pictures, the kids drew the Milky WayGalaxy with a white oil pastel. Then they painted overtheir drawing with black paint. We found that white oilpastels worked MUCH better for the kids than regularcrayola crayons.
We’re ready for our month of science experiments!I gathered lots of ideas, printed them out and putthem together into a little booklet. We watch a friend during the school holidays and lastJanuary we did a lot of science experiments together.The experiments were such a bit hit with all the kidslast year that we decided to spend a full month doingexperiments again this year. My goal is for the experiments to...
Experiment 1: What do ants eat? There are about 1300 different species of ants herein Australia. We’ve heard that there are more ants(by weight) in Australia than people in the world. I don’t know if that’s true, but I can tell you thatwe see streams of ants an inch thick heading upand down the side- walks in the parks andeverywhere. As an aside, DD was bit by a 1 inch...
In Australia we have 5, 10, 20, 50 cent coins and twogold coins $1 and $2. For this experiment we neededUS pennies. 1) We prepared 4 bowls with vinegar, water, salt and vinegar,salt and water. 2) The kids (each did their own experiment) added a pennyto each bowl. 3) We observed after 5, 10 and 15 minutes to discover whyscientists combine certain chemicals. Experiment from: Mudpies to Magnets
LD found that the vinegar/salt combination was theshiniest. Interestingly, DD’s vinegar/salt soaked penny was NOTthe shiniest in her group (I think the water/saltcombination was). Because of this we talked about theneed for scientists to perform experiments over and over.
What you need: 1) Take a stalk of celery, cut the stem and slice the celeryup the center. 2) Stand the celery up in two pots. Fill the cups withwater and add 2 drops of dye to each cup. (I let the kidschoose their own colors, but you get the best results withred and blue). 3) Observe every 15 minutes. 4) Since ED also participated we did a stalk from...
We got almost immediate results from ED’s celery whereshe took a big bite out of the stem! It made for interestingdiscussions as to why so much dye accumulated on thatside. When I asked LD why the water was going up the stalkwhen gravity pulls things down, he first answered, “Maybeit’s evaporating.” (Hmm… but it’s not hot in here I pointedout.) “Maybe it’s crawling. Wait but it’s not alive,” hequickly added....
We did some experiments with oil and water before, butthis had some pretty interesting results. You can findmore details at education.com which has a wonderfularray of science experiments for all ages.
At first, the dye was suspended in the oil, but quickly the“fireworks” began. The red separated out first, followedby the blue and yellow (which looked green). We alllay on the floor and said “ooooh” a lot! This really wasa good experiment for the littlies.
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