Science at Home

Science camp, visits to the Science museum, and of course the kids will ask when they are going to get to do more Science. That's when I pull out one of the Magic Schoolbus Science kits.

First we made gloop or oobleck, a  non-newtonian fluid. The kids started fairly skeptical and not sure they should touch it.

You can see the progression as they play with and discover just how this works.

You pick it up as a solid and it turns to a liquid in your hands. 

 It doesn't take long for everything in the area, including the children, to be covered.

 

Building off of that experiment, the kids made bouncing balls.

For kids who love to learn how something is made, this was a dream.

After doing these experiments, my kids complained that I had to stop to clean up and make dinner. Because as you know, we clearly don't do any Science.