Wednesday, January 20, 2010

SCIENCE PROJECTS

We have had a busy homeschool week enjoying Punkin's last full week home with us. We enjoyed some fun science experiments!

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We learned about hydrophobic molecules by adding milk to a pan, then dropping in food color and adding a drop of dish detergent. The colors explode and make such interesting designs. Love the look on Boo's face here when she saw the colors exploding!
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Meanwhile, Punkin was working on a model of a Eucaryotic cell for Biology class.
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She used Karo syrup which gives it a thick consistency which makes for a pretty cool cell! It's very fun to hold and squish! (shhh!!) I love the endoplasmic reticulum, ribosomes and nucleus that she made out of wire, clay and a bouncy ball! Pretty creative!
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And Banana has quite a radish seed adventure going on in the kitchen window! She carefully labelled 20 radish seeds and is keeping a daily log of how they are progressing through each stage of the growth cycle.
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This is what they looked like after 24 hours of being in their little seed tray. She learned to draw and identify all the parts of the seedlings - the cotyledon, hypocotyl, radicle, root hairs, tap root and seed coats. Our little green thumb gardener has been very happy to learn about the cycle of seed growth!
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Lots more experiments are in the works! My kitchen window is starting to look like a small laboratory!

6 comments:

Erica Shurter said...

I've been looking at your blog for a little while now and I just wanted to say how much I enjoy it! We are a homeschooling family also and I also LOVE photography! Your pictures are great! Thanks for sharing! Erica :)

Alice said...

gotta love homeschool!

Wendy said...

Oh my goodness--I LOVE it! Science is wonderful and amazing! I'm going to borrow the milk experiment for preschool--cool!

Becca~CapturingSimpleJoys said...

that's looks like fun week:)

Melissa Stover said...

wow that's quite an experiment. do you have instructions for the cell?

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