Easy Experiments: Valuable How To Resources for Home and School

by Oct 3, 2016

Easy Experiments: Valuable How To Resources for Home and School

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Inside:  Easy experiments are a fun way to connect with your kids or classroom.  Materials are easy to find or already on hand.  Try a few today.

Easy Experiments Require Easy to Find Materials

“Mom, do spiders have red blood like us?  How do birds fly all that way without a map?  Those were just a few questions I use to bombard my mom with when I was a little girl.

When I was just a bit older I’d sneak off early Saturday morning to the school next door and investigate its puddles for whatever little creatures I could find and sketch.  My deepest desire was a microscope so I could look at the puddle water or aquarium water up close. My mom did relent for my 10th birthday and get me one.  I filled journals with notes and pictures of what I saw just like Anton van Leeuwenhoek a scientist who was Dutch just like me.

Later on I had my own kids…three boys.  They loved hikes in the woods.  All of them asked the interesting, sciency (is that a word?) questions.  My middle son wanted to know if there was a tiny man inside the traffic lights changing its colors.  He laughs about that one now as he majors in Integrated Science and Physics and McMaster University in Hamilton.

I loved experimenting at home.  My own kids loved experimenting at home.  It is a great way to spend time with your kids, very young or not so young.  Experimenting at home or in the classroom is a fantastic way of capitalizing on the insane curiosity of young kids.

It doesn’t have to be complicated or involve expensive or hard to find materials.  Sure, you might want to invest in a few well-considered purchases.  A few strong bar magnets and a microscope for the avid scientist would make a good investment. The easy experiments listed below are possible with equipment and supplies most of you will have on hand.

 

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