Koa is reading "A Pair of Red Clogs" for his FIAR study so for our science day we decided to learn more about weather. We began by reading "Flash Crash Rumble and Rumble and Roll" by Dr. Franklyn M. Branley.
Koa loved the pictures and enjoyed learning about how air pressure changes during a storm. He's also an expert on lightening safety.
To finish up the day we made possibly the EASIEST science experiment of all time, and it pretty much made Koa think I was the smartest mom of all times!!! I'm not gonna argue with him because it's been my experience with some other unnamed children of mine, that this opinion will change with age. Here is the original link I found on Pinterest. http://elliemoon.typepad.com/blog/2012/02/tornado-in-a-jar-diy.html.
I present to you......TORNADO IN A JAR!
Here are the magical ingredients. Dish soap...check. Jar with residue from an impossibly hard label to remove...check. Jar lid...check. Now fill that baby up with water!
Pour in a little dish soap, put on your lid, and SHAKE THAT JAR UP. Here are some lessons we learned from this super simple experiment because in our house NOTHING is simple. 1. Use clear dish soap or it will be a cloudy hot mess. 2. Glitter is a bad idea. I'm actually learning that glitter is ALWAYS a bad idea. :P
SHAKE, SHAKE, and SHAKE!
And then if you've shaken it enough, and you look at it with a super serious look of concentration.....a tornado will appear...like magic.
And yes, we DO do school in footy pajamas. It's our school uniform, and is functional as well as classy....CLASSy...get it! HA! I crack myself up.
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