by boot | Mar 10, 2025
Snow is precipitation (water that falls back to earth) that happens when water vapors in the air freeze. This happens when the temperature in the clouds is very cold. Snowflakes are made up of ice crystals that form around a small particle, like dust. Snowflakes start...
by boot | Mar 10, 2025
What you need: A square of paper (colored or not, patterned or not, you decide! Maybe use white paper and cover it with cherry blossoms?) ruler scissors pencil push pin or straight pin small beads (optional) an unsharpened pencil with a rubber eraser OR a straw OR...
by boot | Mar 10, 2025
What you need: empty bottle balloon bowl of hot water How to: Notice that there is only air in the bottle. Now put the balloon on top of the bottle. Set the bottle in a bowl of hot water. What happens to the balloon? Why? Extend this: For older students, talk about...
by boot | Mar 10, 2025
When have you enjoyed feeling the wind? (A cool breeze on a hot day, flying a kite, when it keeps the mosquitoes away…) When have you been afraid or frustrated by the wind? (When it blows smoke from a campfire in your eyes, when there’s a storm, when it blows the...
by boot | Mar 10, 2025
While we can’t see the wind, we can see what it does. Observe the wind for several days. What are some things that we can see the wind do? (Move the branches of the trees, makes waves on a lake, chase clouds across the sky…)
