Tag Archives: my boys

At the lake.

It is nice to have someone else in the family that wants to go somewhere just to take pictures.

The sight of my seven year old with a camera makes me happy.

photog waterfall lake littlephotog perfectionist hisfavorite ducks looking duckslake bullyGeese are big mean bully’s.

We had them when I was a kid and I have never liked them since.

These guys were chasing all the ducks away.

Cementing the fact that geese are evil…

photogdocs runing duckI could spend every evening watching the sunset on water.

So gorgeous.

Experiments with Air.

waterairI did my post of our Atmosphere study while on vacation and I forgot some things so I thought I would share them in a separate post.

I really liked these experiments because they helped show how air behaves.

waterairbothThis one was simple but really good.

You just take an empty bottle and push it under the water.

This helps kids see that their really is something in the bottle even though it looks empty, air!

coinrisingThis one shows how hot air rises.

You put a quarter on top of a bottle and put it in a sink filled with hot water.

The coin “magically” jumps when the hot air rises.

coinrising2It was a little hard to keep the quarter on top so we switched to a half dollar but it was too heavy.

Quarters seemed to work better.

crushedMy boy crushing some ice for our next experiment.

crushedice2

shakeYou put the ice in a plastic bottle, put on the cap, and shake it up.

smallerThen watch the sides of the bottle be pulled in by the cold air!

All of these worked great!

I got them all out of the book “The Usborne Book Of Science Activities Volume Two”.

Great book!