Experiment: Things that Glow-in-the-Dark and Heat
Background This experiment is meant to go along with our unit on heat. It would be good to have a look at my lesson on the electromagnetic spectrum to get an understanding of how light interacts with the electrons in atoms. The aim of this experiment is to determine if…
Pokemon Party
This post contains affiliate links. This is my second post from this joint party. I've already written about the DC Superhero Girls elements of this party. You can also find the explanation of the game we played that was based on superheros and Pokemon on that post. Crafts I didn't…
Earth’s Changes
This is the last topic in our unit on heat. I'm going to do a review game that covers topics based on forces from last term and heat from this term in two weeks. I've already covered seasons in a previous post. This class was about long term changes in…
Eid al-Adha Sheep
Eid al-Adha is a Muslim holiday based on the story of Ibrahim (Abraham in the Bible and the Torah) having a dream that God wants him to sacrifice his son, but God replaces his son with a lamb. This holiday comes after a one day fast. It is a very…
Kawaii Box – July 2017
This post contains an affiliate link. I am so behind on my posts! I think this month's Kawaii Box has just shipped, so I thought I better get this post about last month's box done before it arrives. The July box had some new types of items in it.…
DC Superhero Girls Party
This post contains affiliate links. This party was part of a joint Superhero - Pokemon party. I'm going to do this post in two parts, with this post being mostly about the superhero stuff. First, the food. Food I've made this jelly (Jell-o) before for a Batman party, but this…
Cells and the Food Chain
This article contains affiliate links. In this class I went through how energy from the sun is involved in the food chain. I needed to go over what cells are since I hadn't done that yet. I had the kids make plant cells at the end of class because we…
Heat and Animals
This article contains affiliate links. This term the topic is heat, and I've gone through some concepts that relate to physics, chemistry, and geology. Now I'm moving on to biology! Earth's Temperature The first thing I went through in this class was the reason that Earth has seasons. The…
Geology Rocks!
This week I moved to a topic somewhat related to heat, geology. The kids were all going on a trip to some caves this week, so I wanted to talk about some of the things they would be seeing there. For this class, I talked to the kids about the…
Reversible and Irreversible Change
Chemistry This class covers reversible and irreversible changes. This is an introduction to chemical reactions. If this topic is for older kids, you may want to discuss it as reactions that only have one direction and go to completion. Exothermic reactions like combustion fall into this category. Many reactions like…