All three kids are elementary schoolers now! Until December of this year, I am their teacher in homeschool. On our first day, we awoke to this sign, flowers and candies that Nettie had left for us in the night. What a special way to start the school year!
Since all three kids are in different grades and levels, I decided to do unit studies with them. We recently completed a Volcano Unit study. We had fun learning about our amazing earth and making special projects. On this day they kids made a volcano out of clay (they made the clay, too), rocks, and foliage. Once it was completed, we made it explode. What fun!
We studied the different layers of the earth and made the inner core, outer core, mantle, and crust out of various foods. Thankfully we had some marshmallows left over from when the team came this summer to use.
We also learned about plate tectonics and used a boiled egg to model the movement of plates of the Earth's lithosphere.
We made our own "lava lamp" with water, coloring, oil, and salt. The heavy salt fell through the layers, taking some oil with it. Then the oil rose back to the top after it separated from the salt, creating rising "lava".
We worked on an ongoing tablecloth, and added things as we learned them.
The finished product!
This experiment simulated a submarine volcano, using hot and cold water to show rising and falling.
Leif was gone for a couple of weeks, helping put on some conferences around Russia. The morning he returned (after about 2 hours of sleep during travel), the kids showed them their lapbooks they've been making about volcanos. They are full of many wonderful facts and even include a joke book.
They were excited to share, and Leif was excited to listen, even in his tired state.
What an amazing world God has made!
2 comments:
This looks like such a fun unit study! I feel like I can barely keep up with the basics much less come up with fun projects like these! It’s hard to keep on top of three sets of schoolwork!
Lots of fun stuff. : ) Erin
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