Motion

Investigate how things move.

2-5 grades- set up their own ramps and guessed how far they thought it would travel, then tested their theory.

Penguins

We created theme words for penguins.

K-1 grades: We labeled a giant penguin.

2-3We filled out a giant chart as a group. We learned about penguin facts such as: name, how they move, their height, how they live, who are the predators are, about their loves and babies, what they eat, and how much they weigh.

I created a large chart then made a smaller one for each of the children. This is a 2nd grader's paper. We did it together. The 4th-5th graders picked their own penguins and filled it in themselves.

Here was an art project for the K-1. It took two days to complete! This is how it began:

This is how it ended up:

On a teacher created penguin chart, we will measure each child against those heights of the penguins.

Create a penguin fact chart from the penguin books.

Battery Power

We used a small battery, some foam and a wire. This was a little difficult for us. The result was that the wire would spin. We got it to rock back and forth a little bit.

Color Motion

We used milk, food coloring, and dish soap.

Color Wheel

We made color wheels.

Pickle Power

Pickle Power: We were testing power using a pickle on foil. This is the beginning of the experiment.

Next we used a small battery, copper wire, and an "m" shaped paper clip on each side. Doing this caused the circle to move. One child did get it to rotate. :)
We learned that the power comes from the bottom of the battery :)

Kitchen Chemistry

We are going to investigate what science experiments we have in our kitchen this week.

These will be items that most of us have in our homes already.

We used lemon juice and food coloring to make these: