Growing Everyday

Jared is very into the sink and float experiments. I think he just likes to put things in the water. Still, he asks to do experiments of this kind all the time. So I decided we would try different fruit in the aquarium to see whihc sank and whick floated. We used an apple, tangelo, lime, lemon, carrots, and grapes. First the children had to fill out a sheet predicting which items would sink of float.

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Next, we placed, aka dropped, the food in the water and marked down whether it sank or floated.

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Lastly, we peeled the tangelo, lemon, and lime to see if being peeled made a difference.

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Okay so for Beka and Jared that wasn’t the last step. The last step was to mutilate all the food into unrecognizable shapes, add salt to make the "witches’ brew or stew", and then taste it. I don’t know why all my science experiments disintegrate into making a mess, but at least the kids learned something for awhile.

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