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An Island Grows - posted from Gilbert, AZ
An Island Grows by Lola M. Schaefer is a good companion text
Wind and waves experiment. - posted from Springdale, AR
To help my kids visualize how the wind made the water move I put different colored drops of food coloring in all four corners of the pan. Then, besides waves they could actually see how the water was mixing together. Great to introduce color mixing, too.
- file: Project002.mp4
Wind and waves experiment. - posted from Springdale, AR
To help my kids visualize how the wind made the water move I put different colored drops of food coloring in all four corners of the pan. Then, besides waves they could actually see how the water was mixing together. Great to introduce color mixing, too.
- file: Project002.mp4
Wind Game - posted from Carrollton, TX
After we did the water and fan experiment we made up a game called Wind Wars. One person sits at one narrow end of the pan and another person sits at the other end. We put an floating object in the middle of the pan (still water) then both people blow hard to try to make the object hit the other person's end of the pan to get a point. After a point is made, replace the object to the middle and keep playing until someone gets 5 points (or whatever you want to do). This can be made non-competitive too by putting both people on one side and blowing together to try to get the object to hit an exact spot on the other end of the pan. It was interesting for my son to see how sitting back and blowing hard produced a greater wind/wave effect than putting your mouth up close to the object.