This morning we to HOPE days as a family. This is our cooperative teaching time with our homeschool group HOPE.
I am teaching a class on rabbits and other small animals as well as assisting in a Drama Class. My son is attending a gardening class and a trip involving six countries. It's a good experience all round.
Anyways, when we got home the lad wanted to play with some of his toys but I kept falling asleep on him due to a short sleep night, so I suggested instead that we do an experiment. We are using Supercharged Science as our science at the moment and for a while I've been wanting to the hovercraft experiment.
Being the scientists that we are we switched it up a bit.
Aurora experiment called for paper cups, CD discs, juice lids, balloons and hot glue. We chose that the lad would use a CD disc and I would use a plastic protection ring. We wanted to know if there would be a difference in how they worked. The directions Aurora gave didn't work for us, due we think to the difference in juice lids. We found what worked best was popping open the lid.
I am teaching a class on rabbits and other small animals as well as assisting in a Drama Class. My son is attending a gardening class and a trip involving six countries. It's a good experience all round.
Anyways, when we got home the lad wanted to play with some of his toys but I kept falling asleep on him due to a short sleep night, so I suggested instead that we do an experiment. We are using Supercharged Science as our science at the moment and for a while I've been wanting to the hovercraft experiment.
Being the scientists that we are we switched it up a bit.
Aurora experiment called for paper cups, CD discs, juice lids, balloons and hot glue. We chose that the lad would use a CD disc and I would use a plastic protection ring. We wanted to know if there would be a difference in how they worked. The directions Aurora gave didn't work for us, due we think to the difference in juice lids. We found what worked best was popping open the lid.
my plastic disc and the popped up lid
The lad chose to conduct some of his own experiments as well. He tried hard to use the pop lid to make a rocket but couldn't figure out how to do it. The balloon just couldn't release air fast enough for him through the lid regardless of what he tried. Though he did succeed in making a cat food rocket. Sprayed cat food all over the kitchen and it was just a hoot (at least to the lad, I was somewhat unimpressed with having cat food fall on my head). :)
see the hovercraft in action. I tried to get the lads but well.....he doesn't like his face showing on-line and I just couldn't get one without his face. (too happy that it worked he was).
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