science for tiniers: snow
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psocopteraWhat do you do with a snow day? Snow science! We filled one bucket of the bucket balance with snow, and one with water, and guessed which one would be heavier. Then we left them on the counter to melt, and saw that the snow melted down to just a little bit of water. Then we re-froze it (outside, just in case being outside made a difference) and saw that it turned into ice, not back into snow.
It's very hard to say how much of this Q is following; he was sad to not get to dump out the buckets. Junie, interestingly, guessed wrong about the balance (she thought they might weigh the same) but did recall enough about doing this before to be dubious of the idea that putting the melted water back out in the snow might turn it back into snow ::grin::.
We also tried some make-your-own-sno-cone culinary experimentation; snow with orange juice on it is too cold and sour, snow with maple syrup on it *I* thought was disgustingly sweet but the kids liked it.
It's very hard to say how much of this Q is following; he was sad to not get to dump out the buckets. Junie, interestingly, guessed wrong about the balance (she thought they might weigh the same) but did recall enough about doing this before to be dubious of the idea that putting the melted water back out in the snow might turn it back into snow ::grin::.
We also tried some make-your-own-sno-cone culinary experimentation; snow with orange juice on it is too cold and sour, snow with maple syrup on it *I* thought was disgustingly sweet but the kids liked it.
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Date: 2014-01-04 07:36 pm (UTC)