Archive for May, 2009
It’s a Technicolor World, so enjoy it!
by ~L on May.24, 2009, under Big City, Buildy Things, Outside Exploration, Uncategorized, fantastic kids, friend-type fun, notSchooling
We got a big box of surprises in the mail today from Steve Spangler Science. The kids were eager to jump right in to playing with their new baby soda bottles and test tube racks. We decided to work with two projects today. The first, and the one that kept them occupied for the longest time, was a good old color-mixing experiment.
The kids started off with empty test tubes, a large beaker flask of water, a pipette, and three fizzy color tabs. They turned the fizzy tabs and water into three tubes of liquid- red, yellow, blue. Then they used those colors and their pipettes to experiment with secondary color combinations in the empty tubes.
After the color experiment, we used some Magic Sand to study the concepts of hydrophilia and hydrophobia.
I think we’re going to love our newly restructured screen-porch Science Lab!
We’ve already started making another order at Steve Spangler. We’re a little obsessed with their Test Tube Experiment Kits. They’re incredibly kid-friendly. Simple enough that the kids can go it alone with minimal adult supervision.
