Online learning for my third grade scientists continued with a thermal energy unit. We began with a review of matter. Click here to watch one of the videos we watched. They had several homework choices, and many of them chose the matter experiments.

Let’s make butter and turn a liquid into a solid! So good and so easy! Click here to learn more. Click here to watch a scientist in action.

Blow up a balloon or rubber glove using science. Click here to learn more.

Second grade aerospace engineers had a Zoom lesson about airplanes. They learned about the four forces at work – gravity, lift, thrust, and drag, Click here to watch a movie about these forces. Their assignment was to fold an airplane using the Engineer Design Process – Ask, Imagine, Plan, Create, and Improve. I encouraged them to try multiple designs, and to test them to discover which one flew the straightest and the furthest.

Online learning continued for first grade meteorologists with a lesson about clouds. Click here to watch a movie they watched. One of their optional assignments (after observing clouds) was to make the four main categories of clouds (cumulus, stratus, cirrus, and cumulus nimbus) with cotton.

Last week, they had a lesson about the water cycle and evaporation. How fast will the water evaporate? Let’s collect data and analyze it.