Bean Experiment Tests

We looked at the outside and discovered the inside.  We found all six parts of a bean.  We had a lot of fun.  I hope you have fun with your experiments too!  I liked doing it, so I think you will too! 

--Joshua

Experiment from Janice VanCleave’s  Biology for Every Kid.

Raisin Experiment

We put raisins in water and let them sit overnight.  And the raisins turned from tiny, small and sticky to seed size and were hard and not sticky.  They were bigger than they were before.  It happened from osmosis.  I liked this experiment.  I hope you do too!  I am Joshua.   

                    Before                                            After

(Experiment found in Janice VanCleave’s Biology for Every Kid: 101 Easy Experiments that Really Work.)

Joshua’s $.30 Painting Project

   

It took me a while and I was inspired by my littlest brother, who was only two.  I liked his ship design and mixed colors too!  But I didn’t mix them in the paint cans, I mixed them on my ship.  It was a lot of fun!  I hope whenever you paint, you’ll have a lot of fun too!

Laptop Deconstruction

The Amazing Inventor

One  day a boy was a great inventor.  He had made ten cars, five kites that fly on their own, windy or not windy.  Whenever nighttime came, he dreamed about making a mistake in  building something.  One  day he decided to take a walk in the woods near his house to see what he could find.  At first, he didn't know what he would see whenever he reached before he went to the forest.  A green leaf fell on his head in  the middle of the forest.  Whenever he got home, he had brought back sticks and the leaf that fell on his head. He  made  a toy tent out of the leaf, which was very big, and the sticks. He had four leftover sticks and two  leaves that where shaped like a head and were very small and were stuck on two of the  sticks.  So he  used the four stick and the  two head-shaped leaves and one marker to make two people. So he liked his tent and two people. 

And so he tried to make a jet pack. The first and second time it did not work.  And the third time, it did work.  So it was on his completed table.  That night he did not dream his normal dreams of making mistakes in his work.  Instead, he dreamed that he got lost. 

The next day, he built a boat to go across the river in the middle  of the woods.  Whenever he got across the river, he found that there was a hut there.  Not the kind that someone would  live in, but of the kind that no one lived in.  So he made it his secret hideout to invent things.  He brought his jet pack there, the tent, and the people.  Then he went home to go to sleep because it was bedtime.  The next day, he went to the hideout and found that the jet pack, the tent, and the people were missing.  And he found that where he left them was by a window that was open, facing the river.  And so he went down the river. and found the jet pack acting like a boat with the people and the tent on top of the jet pack.  It was stuck at a dam.  And he brought them back to the hut.   The end.

The Fire Cat

 

I never knew that a cat  could have spots. I liked the book.  The fire  cat wanted to do something big.  He did in the end. Read the book to find out!

 

 

 

Absolute Zero

This video (from Nova) was about people making things very cold.  I liked the Bose-Einstein condensate the best. It's amazing how it could defy gravity.  I think that if a man grabbed another man's hand and then put on a ring of Bose-Einstein condensate, they would both freeze. 

Giants

I watched a video on the computer about giants and this is a link to them.  I was most amazed at how big the people were.  One was even taller than the ceiling in my house. I was also amazed that their bodies changed so much because of their enormous growth. 

Snow Day!!!!

We got about 6 inches of snow and finally got to play and sled in the snow.