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Earth Day Activities

Posted by on Apr 22, 2014 in Earth Day, Outdoor Activities, Science Activities | 4 comments

In preparation for Earth Day, my boys and I started talking about what we could do as a family to help take care of our planet. We started by investigating where our trash and recycling goes after it is collected by the garbage and recycling trucks. I explained to my bugs that when we throw something in the garbage, it doesn’t just disappear; our garbage ends up in a land fill, which is a massive hole filled with trash and covered up with dirt… YICK! This is why we need to be accountable for what we throw away; there is no such thing as away!

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Rainbow Erupting Sculptures

Rainbow Erupting Sculptures

Posted by on Mar 13, 2014 in Rainbow Activities, Science Activities, St. Patrick's Day | 0 comments

The spectacular chemical reaction of baking soda and vinegar never gets old in our house! There’s just something exhilarating and oddly satisfying about causing something to fizz, bubble and erupt. With this in mind, it only makes sense that causing ordinary sculpted creations to ooze and explode into a flurry of rainbow colours would be exponentially cooler….right?!

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Melting Ice Globes

Melting Ice Globes

Posted by on Jan 18, 2014 in Light Table, Outdoor Activities, Science Activities, Sensory Bins, Winter Activities | 0 comments

The other day I was outside sprinkling salt on the treacherous patches of ice scattered haphazardly on our driveway, when M posed the question, “mommy, why are you doing that?” I explained to him that salt lowers the freezing point of water, causing the ice to melt quicker. M pondered that and then replied, “well, the puddle is a liquid, but then it froze and turned into ice, which is a solid.” I have been teaching M about the three states of matter, so I was THRILLED when he was able to transfer what he had learned about solids and liquids and apply it to situation that was relative to him.

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States of Matter Experiments

States of Matter Experiments

Posted by on Jan 16, 2014 in Science Activities | 2 comments

This week my bugs have been learning a bit about the different states of matter and their properties. We have been fortunate to experience some warmer temperatures these past few days (ie. above freezing)  so the boys have been able to observe snow melting into puddles of water, the puddles freezing overnight into slick, glimmering ice, and then melting into puddles of water again later in the day. It was M’s inquiry of where all the ice came from that sparked the idea for us to investigate the different states of matter.

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