- As a research laboratory, I want to enhance my children’s love for science through recreational activities.
- We are great fans of scientific podcast suitable for age and ridiculous experiences.
- It is easy – and enjoyable – applying the scientific method or scientific inquiries to daily life.
My interest in science has been repeatedly launched throughout my childhood through activities such as completing construction groups with my father, diving, and various scout girls workshops. Now, I am a research laboratory technician and worked in both the fields of microbiology and development biology.
I want to enhance the love of science in my children and take care of their interests in all aspects of the world around us. For this reason, often exploring scientific concepts and rewarding experiences with my 3 -year -old daughter and my 5 -year -old. These activities are especially dazzled by my child and help me instill science.
We listen to the podcast together
My son enjoys listening to the podcast together in the car and his current favorite is “Tumble Science PodCast for Kids”. The first episode that we listened to was entitled “The World of Tube”. What is the young boy who will not be linked to this title? Podcast often answers the questions posed by young listeners, such as “Do the errors are attached?” As an adult, I don’t think I would have never asked about the elbows, but this encouraged us to think outside the box.
At bedtime, after reading books, we often listen to the “narrow sleeping sciences” podcasts, which is listened to a calm voice and often calms down to sleep.
It also likes to listen to Yoto -based science cards, which is a child -friendly audio platform. Do this helps us out of the door faster as we are ready in the morning. Recently, we enjoyed the “Ladybird Audio Adventures” card, which is well coordinated with a book that he also enjoys, “Look inward: volcanoes and earthquakes”.
We find science in daily life
Since my son is already interested in science, it is easy to apply the scientific method or scientific inquiries on daily life. We will often talk about things like yeast at the beginning of the fermented dough or how to properly measure fluids in a measurement cup.
One of his favorite summer activities is gardening. He and my husband will be grown with a small group of vegetables, and he will help him take care of and eat them. We discuss what the plants need to grow and how the bees help pollinate certain plants. We even planted some tickling plants inside-their leaves closely when they are touched, which are a defense mechanism.
Nature monitoring can be an experience for itself; Watching rain drops, seeing the extent of the water height explodes when jumping in exchange for mobility in the ponds, or watching the leaves turns colors.
This winter, we learned about simple reactions by conducting experiments with daily home appliances, such as mixing baking soda and vinegar in a compressed plastic bag decorated with snow. Baking and vinegar soda interacts to form carbon dioxide, which accumulates when the bag is closed, causing the bag to expand until it emerges, causing snow explosion!
This winter, my son enjoyed making explosive snow men using a bag of postal code, a mixture of vinegar and baking soda.
With the permission of Ann James
For another pleasant activity, we use salt while melting snow and pretending to go to “hunting ice” in a grain container full of water and ice. Placement of salt on the ice cube changes the freezing point, causing the ice to melt faster. Snowing a series on ice fishing simulation can lead to ice fishing, as the ice cube will freeze over the chain as soon as salt is diluted with the surrounding water. I must admit, it is very fun watching my children swinging ice cubes around them!
Both my children enjoy the ice hunting experience that shows how salt can affect the freezing point in the ice.
With the permission of Ann James
We turn the time for a pleasant experience
Last year, my son’s Christmas storage was stuffed with some doses of pigeons that were a great success. It has all the cubes of powdered and powdered grenades that fit inside a vial. You can pour warm water into the bottle and interact to form a colored small volcano. My son took this as an opportunity to find out what happens when some dose poured into another bottle or remove the cubes.
We have re -used the bottle using pigeon colors and led to a similar reaction (albeit smaller). It was fun playing the doses, and often imitating blue from blue, a “strong dose”, asking me to buy its doses and choose the animal they will turn to, similar to what is happening in the animation.
We embrace the groups of science and construction
We also participate in activities outside our home, such as DIY workshops (free!) Louis and Home Depot for Children, where children build things like snow snow and snowflake jewelry. I remind me of sharing these moments with my children in my youth.
My father often built scientific groups with me when I was a child. I especially remember the Build-A-Radio collection and dismantling a broken VCR player, just to find out what it seemed inside. It was precious moments of interconnection, but it also sparked a feeling of curiosity in my little mind. At that time, I may have wanted to be the president or actress, but these projects taught me the important life skills groups that prompted me to a science profession. Now, I do the same with my children.
My son got the science group last year for his birthday, and we worked through the experience list. He is especially excited about the book How things doWhich was talented after the exit from the multiple library. It contains experiences and games in it, but also stories and favorites – a page that displays all lines (internet, water, and sanitation) throughout the house.
