No more Lesson plans to write. No more tests to grade. No longer are my boys my homeschool students. I am changing out of my homeschool hat into my personal hobbies hat. Gardening, fitness, photography, part time employment.
For the purpose of THROWING them and watching them shatter.
(and drinking the not-yet-frozen-water out of them)
They watched the water bubbles move inside them and looked the air bubbles inside, too
I have some Chemistry DVDs from Netflix. They are the Standard Deviants ones. I have the boys watching them this week, as kind of an overview before we get back into the DVD course. I was watching them watch them and listening to Gavin who is re-explaining pretty much everything, with more detail and more examples. So, I wonder why I even bother teaching him. This is how it has been his whole life. He always seems to already know what I get ready to teach him. I think he should be my co-teacher for this course. (we are using Apologia High School Chemistry DVD Course)
I just need a place to list all my planned experiments all together. to make it easy for me to gather everything we need.
These are pretty much the NON-DVD Experiments (demonstrations).
I'll definitely be checking out some of those links later... but I wanted to say my kids LOVE freezing things. They save them in the freezer for YEARS. I will tell them how fun it is to smash them... we need some space in the freezer.
Love all of these ideas! Boys are so fun becasue they enjoy all the hands on activities. I don't homeschool....but I have 2 boys and 1 girl. My son had a blast with his Science Fair project this year by creating "protection" for about a half dozen raw eggs and seeing what protected better from a 10 ft drop. We used baggies to house each "nest". Bubble wrap, Styrofoam balls, balloons.... I'm gladly a new follower. southernfriedgreenmom.blogspot.com/
Oh yeah, these are cool!! We heard this year that if you blow bubbles in sub-zero temps. they will freeze instantly and shatter when they fall. We get the sub-zeros here frequently in Montana so we can't wait to try it out!!
Thanks for stopping by my blog, I think I found you on Winecup's list of homeschooling-boy-bloggers! :-)
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I'll definitely be checking out some of those links later... but I wanted to say my kids LOVE freezing things. They save them in the freezer for YEARS. I will tell them how fun it is to smash them... we need some space in the freezer.
Whoa! We've GOT to do this :) The ballons are soooo cool!!! Thanks!
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Vinegar and egg thing... sounds very scientifical. :)
But that Hot ice thing... AWESOME!
Love all of these ideas!
Boys are so fun becasue they enjoy all the hands on activities. I don't homeschool....but I have 2 boys and 1 girl. My son had a blast with his Science Fair project this year by creating "protection" for about a half dozen raw eggs and seeing what protected better from a 10 ft drop. We used baggies to house each "nest". Bubble wrap, Styrofoam balls, balloons....
I'm gladly a new follower.
southernfriedgreenmom.blogspot.com/
Oh yeah, these are cool!! We heard this year that if you blow bubbles in sub-zero temps. they will freeze instantly and shatter when they fall. We get the sub-zeros here frequently in Montana so we can't wait to try it out!!
Thanks for stopping by my blog, I think I found you on Winecup's list of homeschooling-boy-bloggers! :-)
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