This week's Homeschool Science Club class involved investigative hypothesis while researching 'secret' mixtures. By following the experiments step-by-step and mixing liquids with the solids and/or heating them in a required sequence we were able to come to final conclusions about the actual ingredients in each mysterious mixture.
Jackson & Jeremiah were truly tested in their researching and investigative skills. And they were quite proud when they discovered the correct mixtures.
Jeremiah and his table, and the instructor, Conlin, heating a mixture.
Jackson using his deductive reasoning skills along with the results of the mixture testing to complete the research results form.
Jenna enjoyed participating in this class as well.
Jenna has always enjoyed mixing and pouring with me in the kitchen. Maybe she'd like to be a chef one day? Or maybe a Perfume Specialist or Chemist?
Heating our mixture. This one acted like lava by bubbling and oozing.
Jackson, his table and instructor, Conlin, experimenting with a mixture by heating. The mixture smoked, carmelized and bubbled.
The actual ingredients on the left, followed by the steps to take by adding liquids or heating. And followed by the results expected. The goal was to use deductive reasoning in discovering the actual mixtures by collecting results and comparing the data.
Jackson and Jeremiah creating some wooden mazes for marble races.
Jenna always stops off at this display where she can release golf balls on rubber ramps and by adjusting the heights of the ramps, can watch and see if the balls end up in the bin at the end of the ramps on the right.
Jeremiah's friend, Keenan, who is an employee at Explora also enjoys creating comic book strips, just as Jeremiah does. Keenan and Jeremiah enjoy discussing artistic design and sharing their ideas. Jeremiah took some of his comic strip art to show Keenan this day and Keenan was so pleased that he created one of his own comic strips to share with Jeremiah as a gift. Jeremiah was very honored and thrilled about this as you can see in this picture.
Jeremiah's comic strips involve characters called "Lightning Man, Power Man and Cougar Man" Keenan's comic strips are called "Kung Fu Joe".
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