Hydrogen Powered Car

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.

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. 

Science Center Trip

We were in St. Louis for an eye appointment, so we took the opportunity to go to the the St. Louis Science Center for the day. We hadn't been there for a while. It was a beautiful day and we were able to play and learn outside as well as inside. We got to see two science shows. The first was the Science of "Peeps" (the marshmallow candy). They did a lot of different things to the peeps and compared the end result to the control peep. The boys were amazed at what the liquid nitrogen did to the peep and then they got to feel the floor after the instructor poured some on the floor. Dry and cold...very unexpected.

Joshua got to volunteer in the second science demonstration about Carbon Monoxide. He turned the crank to make electricity for light bulbs. They compared different types of light bulbs. Joshua did such a great job ;) that they gave him a compact florescent bulb to take home. He is currently using it in his room. He was disappointed that we had "the wrong kind of light bulb" in his closet. He is going to help us be Green one light at a time! :)

Photography 101

Pictures of fan and laundry basket lid

Joshua's self portrait

Learning Continually: Joshua Slideshow

 

Learning Continually: Joshua Slideshow

You can click on this link to find a slideshow that Joshua designed himself. 

Learning Continually: Joshua's Story

Follow this link to find a video of Joshua telling a story he wrote.

Learning Continually: Joshua's Story

CD Player Demolition!

The boys had a great afternoon taking apart our broken cd player. All three of them got in on the action. It was quite the learning experience! Joshua got to learn how to use tools and what parts needed to come off first in order to take it apart.