Science Experiment: Gases

Gases made our balloon blow up.

First, we put baking soda in a big bottle.

Then we put vinegar in a cup and poured it in the bottle.

When we put vinegar in it bubbled.

Then we put a balloon on the bottle and it blew up.

The balloon filled with gas.

Science: Solids, Liquids and Gases (Part 2)

We put ice into a cup.
Ice is a solid.
We put the cup into hot water.
The ice cubes melted away.
They became water.
Water is a liquid.
We put the water in a pan on the stove.
The water went away.
It became a gas.
The stove is hot.
Heat made the liquid change to a different state of matter.
We also put water in the freezer and it turned into an ice cube.
Cold changed a liquid to a solid.

Building Foundations of Scientific Understanding, Lesson A-2 part 2

Science: Solids, Liquids and Gases (Part 1)

Everything is made of matter.
There are three states of matter.
The three states of matter are: liquid, solid and gas.
Examples of solids: wood, blocks, bricks, stones, LEGOs, tables, trees.
Examples of liquids: water, juice.
Examples of gases: air, tooting, steam.
Salt is a solid but it flows like liquid.

Building Foundations of Scientific Understanding, Lesson A-2 part 1

Science: Organizing Things into Categories

Organizing means sorting.
Category means group.
We looked at the cutlery drawer.
It had different things in it.
We organized the cutlery into the right places.
These places are called categories.
We read a book about same and different.
We organized buttons by sorting them.
We sorted them by size.
We sorted them by colour.
We sorted them by number of holes.
We sorted them by leather, metal, plastic, bone, stone.
We played a memory game.
We organized the things on the tray into categories.
Then it was easier to remember the stickers, pencil crayons, crayons and LEGOs.

Building Foundations of Scientific Understanding, Lesson A/B-1

Photography and Science Experiment

Photos documenting science experiment on surface tension

Story: Salmon Spawning

We saw salmon swimming.
They were trying to get upriver.
All of the salmon were stinky.
Seagulls eat salmon eggs.
I crawled in a giant tree log.
Some women were painting pictures of the trees and river.
The river was flowing downstream.

How Many Seeds in a Pumpkin?

Small Pumpkin -- Home Garden
43 cm around
13 cm tall
19 lines
light orange
269 seeds

Medium Pumpkin -- G Farm
60 cm around
17 cm tall
26 lines
medium orange
57 seeds

Large Pumpkin -- G Farm
73 cm around
21 cm tall
23 lines
medium orange
264 seeds

Large Pumpkin -- M Farm
73 cm around
21 cm tall
24 lines
dark orange
378 seeds