Bernoulli Principle

Science Magic: Breath Lifts Coin

Challenge : Using only your breath, make a coin sitting near but not over the edge of a table rise and flip without touching it. FYI: I have been successful with a penny. Yes, it can be done and it doesn’t take a hurricane wind. The secret is to blow a fast horizontal stream of [...]

MATH: Measuring

measuring mac2

Young children generally do not understand fractions, but they know when they are given the smaller piece when a candy bar is divided. I love the idea of letting one child divide a candy bar and the other gets to pick his or her portion. What a great way to encourage kids to learn about [...]

Scientific Method for Young Kids?

KIM TWINS PANTING PUPS

Scientific Method: How Scientists find answers to problems. Actually, the method can be used by everyone for problems other than those related to science. Even so, I suggest that you encourage kids to be imaginative and to put on their science hat. This of course is a very special hat that could contain all kinds [...]

Paper Flowers

Instructions to fold a four-petal flower cut from newspaper demonstrates absorption and capillary action. are folded

Tiger Talk

tiger talk

Animals communicate (talk to tigers and animals, as well as people). They do this by sounds as well as body language. The title of the video is misleading. There is a glass between the tiger and the child. The video provides visual information that young children can understand. The video dramatically, in a fun way, [...]

A Talking Tiger Tail

tiger tail

Body language is one way that animals communicate with each other.  For example, tigers communicate by the  position as well as the motion of their tails. You can model the “talking tail” of a tiger using a ruler. Discover for Yourself 1. As in the diagram above, in an upright position and slowly shaken back [...]

Hair Color

krista pink dog

I have never seen a dog with pink hair! Have You? FYI: The Maltese dog shown had white hair before its hair was dyed. The genetics of hair color is very complex. In the most simplistic sense, hair color from black to white depends on a pigment called emulanin. The amount and type of emuelanin [...]

Butterfly Wings-Two Pairs

butterfly open wings1

Butterfly lesson for young learners. Butterflies have two pairs of wings.

How to Make Butter

butter shaking jars

Making Homemade Butter

Earth-Moon System

earth moon cartoon

A fun discovery lesson that demonstrates the gravity “tug-of-war” between the Earth and the Moon.