Space

Last week, we did a big space unit.  I borrowed a friend's Apologia Astronomy book and we headed for outer space.  We worked our way through the 8 planets.  Daniel is still sad about Pluto, though. 



 Made craters with marbles and rocks (into cornmeal) and made a salt dough model of Mercury.  

Played a space trivia game...

  Finding out way the sky is blue
 
Another experiment on the orbit of Earth
  More notebooking and a Venn diagram comparing/contrasting Jupiter and Saturn 

 Did you know Saturn is the only planet that would float?
 Stormy Jupiter experimentMix 1 cup of glue with 4 cups of water. Drop in food color.Blow with straws. 

Making a storm vortex (tea leaves and a straw)

 Jupiter Mosaic 

Space mobile- I won this kit a long time ago and have been saving it for a space unit.

  After school was over one day, I had to take a phone call.  When I was done I was surprised to find  the kids had used their legos to create a space probe. 


Friday we had friends over for some moon and constellation fun...more on that tomorrow!