Is your child one of these many unfortunate students?
* Would you like to have one of those "My child is an honor student" bumper stickers on your car?
* Don't you want that sense of pride you can get when your child gets fantastic grades in difficult subjects?
* Do you think that it will be expensive to help your children learn about science? (all of our experiments are done with household items)
* Have you been looking for more activities to do with your kids?
* All of your friends could be jealous when your children are teaching THEM about things that they don't understand.
Making Science Fun!
According to the Department of Education and researchers at Miami University in Ohio, girls seem to lose interest in science once they get to the fourth grade level. While researchers are unsure of what causes the lack of interest, there are ways to make science more fun for all grade levels, especially those in the early elementary years.While teachers can show the reason why science exists to explain questions about the world, it is up to the parents to increase exposure to new and exciting activities to do at home, or encourage trips to local "hands-on" museums. With the use of science experiments that explain how things work in our daily life, children begin to see science as interesting, as opposed to a boring subject in school.
It is especially advantageous for parents to plan fun summer projects for girls as well as boys, so that their interest is ongoing and does not begin to lack, as research has shown in the past. Science for children can be fun, simple and interactive so that it is something kids can look forward to.
Cool science experiments for parents and children in elementary school:
- Show children how fog is made
1.Fill a jar with hot water, and then empty it out, except for an inch of remaining water.
2.Place a strainer with ice cubes on the top of the jar.
3.Once the cold air from the ice cubes meets the warm air from the jar, a fog will begin to form. - Create a tornado in a bottle
1.Get two empty two-liter soda bottles and remove the labels.
2.Fill one of the bottles halfway with water, and place the other bottle on top with. openings attached and touching each other.
3.Tape the two bottles together with duct tape - (openings facing each other)
4.Pick the bottles up and move them in a circular motion.
5.Flip the bottle so the water can come down, creating a tornado!
Additionally, choosing experiments that will be most interesting to girls, such as those which incorporate plants or food is also a science winner. One popular science experiment teaches children about how plants use water, and how it affects them: - Changing a flower's color
1.Find a white flower (usually carnations work best).
2.Place the flower in a cup or vase that contains about ½ cup of water.
3.Add around 10 drops of food coloring to the water and mix.
4.Leave the flowers in the vase overnight, and find that they change color gradually.
5.Leave them in as long as you like, and see exactly where the water travels in the flower petals.
Science can be fun at any age as long as it stays interesting. Boys and girls go through learning school subjects with different attitudes and perceptions on the topic, so it is always important to make sure that everyone is included in the fun! Taking kids to science centers can be a great way to get out of the house during summer break, and to encourage continued learning even when they are out of school.
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The colored water and celery trick
Water normally enters a plant through its roots. It is carried upwards to all parts of the plant by means by capillary action. You can make the tubes that carry water through a plant easier to see with a class of water that has been dyed with food coloring. Set a whole carrot (without its green top) in a glass of water dyes with food coloring - red works the best. Let the carrot sit overnight. Remove it from the glass, and slice off a section from the top. Slice the bottom part lengthwise and you can easily see where the water has flowed. The tubes that carry the water, by the way, are called xylem.
This is much more dramatic with a celery stalk. Place the stalk (with leaves) in the dyed water for three hours or so. The water will be carried up through the stalk and out to the leaves, which will be dyed. If another stalk is partly split in half from the bottom, and each half is placed in a different color of water (red and blue, perhaps), then each half will be colored a different shade. The same thing can be done with a white carnation.
This is much more dramatic with a celery stalk. Place the stalk (with leaves) in the dyed water for three hours or so. The water will be carried up through the stalk and out to the leaves, which will be dyed. If another stalk is partly split in half from the bottom, and each half is placed in a different color of water (red and blue, perhaps), then each half will be colored a different shade. The same thing can be done with a white carnation.
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Colored water goes up the stalk of celery and Rick squeezes 2 days into 2 minutes.
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