Thursday, August 11, 2011

FORMING SURFACE CURRENTS IN OUR KITCHEN - SCIENCE EXPERIMENT

We have started our Science curriculum Apologia's Swimming Creatures on the 5th Day. We love it! This week we learned about currents and tides. Here is the experiment we did:

The object was to get the cheerios to go in the curricular motion as a current does.

Materials needed:
2 hair dryers or small fans
water
casserole type dish
cheerios
Turn the hair dryers on low aim them above the water while the other person hold the hair dryer / fan along one side of the long side of the casserole dish towards your end. The Cheerios will start to flow in a circle forming a mini gyre which as produced by winds on the earth that blow in opposite directions!




 

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6 comments:

  1. UnknownAugust 11, 2011 at 7:23 PM

    That looks like some fun!!

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  2. Lisa BoyleAugust 11, 2011 at 8:34 PM

    Wow! What a fun time and lesson learned! :-) We will be starting Apologia's Zoology 3 (Land Animals) soon. I am so looking forward to it! Hope I'll have some fun photos like yours to post before long. :-)

    Many blessings,
    Lisa
    http://our4kiddos.blogspot.com

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  3. StefanieAugust 12, 2011 at 10:37 PM

    Neat! Swimming Creatures might be next on our list.

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  4. TiciaAugust 13, 2011 at 9:52 AM

    My kids loved it when we did that. It was so much fun.

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  5. Mrs. RandomAugust 13, 2011 at 11:06 PM

    I'm seeing tons of cool Apologia science posts this week! How neat!

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  6. CriscAugust 15, 2011 at 10:24 PM

    Great project,great site and I'm glad I found your blog through SS =)

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