Thanks to NPR's Science Friday show, we do somewhat cool science every now and again. On November 17, we did an experiment that tested the strength of different kinds of apples. I bought two of every kind of apple that Smiths had, then I cut them up, ate some (the kids ate some too), poked a straw through the apple until a small piece of the apple was sticking out of the straw. Then we hung washers around the piece of apple until it broke off and recorded how many washers it took to break each type of apple. The hypothesis (if I remember correctly) was that the crisper apples would be harder to break. Afterwards, we watercolored pictures of apples. It was fun and tasty!
The above picture is very misleading because it looks like I'm engaged in some sort of artsy-craftsy activity, which is clearly impossible.
We all learn better in outfits made entirely out of toy silks.
Cutie-patootie face was there, too.
Recently we did a unit on origami science. We watched the Nova video about it and several youtube videos. We're huge fans of that TED talk guy (Manu?) who developed the origami paper microscope (which I bought for just this lesson and have not been able to find!!!), and the NASA scientist who quit and became a full-time origami artist. His origami is amazing. The kids have been learning origami through you-tube videos pretty much non-stop for the past two weeks. Good times.
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That's a cool science experiment. And Eli is adorable.
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