On Thursday we made a trip to Laurence Hall of Science. The big whale outside of the building is always a big hit.
In the first half of the day we explored the Dinosaur exhibit. There were many different classifications of dinosaurs ranging from the flying Pterodactyl to the carnivorous Deinonychus.
At the other exhibits some students made electronic cars, explored roller coaster mechanics, built with wood blocks, and explored the human anatomy.
At lunch we went out-side and enjoyed the sunshine and the outdoor exploration stations.
After lunch we went down stairs to the classrooms to see the reptiles and amphibians. Lucky for us they had one of their snakes out and lots of brave students got to pet it.
Projects
This week our Sciece in Islam focus was on the Sky:
Have you not seen how God makes the clouds move gently, then joins them together, then makes them into a stack, and then you see the rain come out of it...(Quran, 24:43).
We did two projects:
The first was a project that helped us to understand fog creation. There are 2 kinds of fog, advection and radiation or ground fog. We recreated radiation fog by placing an ice cube on top of an open water bottle filled with about an inch of warm water. Fog is created because the warm air created buy the warm water is cooled by the ice cub which causes the moisture in the air to condense. This same process occurs in many places.
For the second project we recreated tornados to help the campers visually understand how tornados
work. With two 2 liter bottles, we added food coloring to some water inside one of the water bottles
and then taped the two water bottles together. From there we spun the water bottles to the water to spin which creates the vortex you would see in a tornado.
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