Summer Science Camps Underway

A house for little people.

One week of Science camp is complete, and one to go.  Last week 8 campers studied a variety of physical science topics and performed many science activities to round out the first week.  Our activities included:

Balloon rocket races, Hot Wheels racing down ramps on various surfaces to test the affects of friction, experimenting with magnets, making a compass, making a hovering butterfly, making butter, crystals with sugar and baking soda, floating rocks, building structures with marshmallows and dry spaghetti, testing the strength of a short span verses long span bridge, planning a stable and strong structure and understanding how building a structure must consider the function, showing how light travels in a straight line, how sound can be muffled or amplified and reflected, making a tuning fork with a table fork and a string, and making kaleidoscopes.

Sound like a lot?  Wait till this week is over.  The theme for our second week of camp is Earth and Space Science.

I want to show some photos of our day of building with marshmallows and spaghetti.

Great builders also have a lot of fun.

Another chance for hands-on learning

Future architect?

I wonder if we could build a real house out of marshmallows.

Some structures can push in...

Or they can pop out…

In a past life, this was a pyramid contractor.

Amazing structure for a 6-year old.

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