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Creation Study ~Day 3 Dry Land& Plants

materialsFor Day 3 I decided to study the earth’s core first and then plants.

We used the Big Book of Earth and Sky again for this study.

As well as “The Explosive World of Volcanoes” and “Voyage to the Volcano”.

The Magic School Bus also has an episode about volcanoes called “Blows it’s top”.

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I had seen several people on Pinterest that made the different layers of earth using playdough or something like it.

Links here and here.

I decided to use model magic for our layers of the earth.

It was soft and easy for the boys to shape.

core hotHe burned his hand holding the core…

mantel making doneThey did a great job!

insideWe ended up only doing one layer for the core and one for the mantel.

They knew there are more layers though.

It is just hard to do them all with a limited amount of modeling dough.

If you use this and let it dry make sure that your land is pushed down into the water.

When ours dried the green started to pull up from the blue.

journeyI thought Journey to the Center of the Earth was an appropriate literature choice for our study.

We watched National Geographic’s “Down to the Earth’s Core” as well.

It has some beautiful graphics but is FULL of evolution.

Since we are studying Creation Science right now also it was not a big deal for us but might be confusing for a child that has not covered that yet.

I would also recommend “How to Dig a Hole to the Other Side of the World” by Faith McNulty.

It is a lot of fun and really interesting way of learning about the different layers!

volcano explode eruptWe always “have” to make a baking soda eruption.

I like easy and familiar projects.

Here is an older post with a list of what you need to do this experiment.

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Next up was plants.

I ended up going on vacation at the end of our Core study so we did not study plants for two weeks.

There is a good Magic School Bus episode about plants as well called “Gets Planted”.

experiments plants2If you put a stalk of celery in a cup of dye it will dye the veins and leaves.

I recommend a dark dye.

We tried lighter colors and could not tell.

Black seemed to work best.

We also put a bag on one of my plants so the boys could see the water coming off the plant.

list hunt seedsWe also did a simple scavenger hunt for the different parts of the plant.

We are mostly focusing on what was created each day and the verses that go with them.

Studying these subjects are hopefully helping it stick in there head a little better then just saying plants were created on Day 3.

I never knew how important the days of creation were until we started this study.

It is important to know that the sun was created right after plants.

Plants only had one day without the sun.

If these were not literal days but millions of years for each “day” then how did the plants survive?

I am teaching my kids apologetics with the days of creation!

I think no child is too young to learn Creation Science.

They hear about evolution from birth so they should hear the bible side from birth also!

Day 1 Light, Day & Night

Day 2 Atmosphere

Creation Study ~Day 2 Atmosphere

 

wallchart2 “Then God said, “Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.” ” Genesis 1:6

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For our day 2 study we learned about the different layers of the earths atmosphere and what happens in each one.

The wall chart above is called “the big book of earth” it has some great illustrations for earths atmosphere as well as a simple explanation of what it is.

I also leaned heavily on this site. It explains things that go on in each layer.

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For the Exosphere we read about it being on the very edge of earths atmosphere and that sometimes satellites orbit there.

Thermosphere- aurora borealis, we watched a couple of great videos showing it. Look for a time lapse video of it. The international space station orbits within the thermosphere so we looked into that also. NASA kids site has some information about who is in the space station right now!

Mesosphere- meteor showers

Stratosphere-lighting sprites, ozone layer, weather balloons

Troposphere-clouds

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We also did many air experiments that we found in a book called “the Usborne book of science activities Volume two”. It has been such a great resource I decided to buy the other volumes!

I am sure you could find many air experiments online also.

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The boys loved this experiment with matches. We did it over and over! The more matches the better! You can find out why the water fills the jar, here.

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I recommend putting a couple drops of food coloring in the water. Don’t mix it. You can watch the water current as it moves into the jar.

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I had the the boys draw a picture to sum up what we learned about each layer, then I would hang it up on our door.

I had grand plans of making each one a different shade of blue and really pretty. Then I realized I would have to go out and by paper in order to do that. I stuck with the cheap option and used what we had.

All of my oldest’s pictures include Lex Luther trying to destroy something in the picture…

In one he is trying to destroy the ozone layer!

Boys are awesome.

I am doing this post on the road so it is difficult to include links to all the sites I used. If you want to see more of my resources you can check out my creation study folder at Pinterest.

*view more air experiments we did in this post.

 

Day 1 Light, Day & Night

Day 3 Dry land & Plants

Creation Study ~Day 1 Light, Day & Night

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“Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good;

and God divided the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night.

So the evening and the morning were the first day.”

Genesis 1:3-5

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For our science for the next 6 weeks(maybe 7) we are studying Scientific Creationism and a science subject to go with each day of creation.

Week 1 was the study of Day 1 so we studied light, Day and Night.

We are reading the corresponding lesson from the “Answers for Kids curriculum” as well as “Case for a Creator for Kids“.

This is our second time reading the Case for a Creator, my boys are getting so much out of it this time around!

creation playdough

I let the boys play with playdough sometimes while I read.

There is a nice Creation Study Unit on this site that I have been using as a reference also.

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The Max Axiom book “The illuminating world of Light” is a great way to introduce the subject.

The Magic Schoolbus show has a great episode on light called “Makes a rainbow”.

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We got the “Bending Pencil” experiment from here.

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Experimenting with how things effect light.

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Bending light experiment.

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Reflecting light.

Sciencekids has a really good section on light with experiments also.

We did there experiment on absorbing heat and the boys loved it!

I just forgot to take any pictures…

My oldest read Children’s biographies on Thomas Edison and Albert Einstein.

I would like to say it was intentional on my part that these went along with our lesson but it was complete serendipity.

I love when that happens.

My son and I like the Graphic Novel Biographies best.

They are colorful and look like comic books!

We are covering one Day of creation for a week.

Answersingenesis.org has a great kids section so be sure to check them out for more info on Creation!

Let me know if you have any questions!

Day 2 Atmosphere

Day 3 Dry Land & Plants