My preK scientists began lab with a short lesson on acorns. Why were my acorns green? Why do oak trees produce acorns?

Can we make these daisies colorful without touching the petals?

Light can be bent or refacted and the colors inside the white light released. We used color peeps with special lenses to bend the light. Look at all the rainbows we saw through them!

Then we used highlighters to draw on yellow paper. We couldn’t see our drawings, but when we turned on the UV lights, our secret messages appeared!

“Astronomers use the equinox to mark the transition from summer to fall in the Northern Hemisphere, which happens around Sept. 22 or 23 every year. The autumnal equinox is roughly the halfway point between our longest and shortest days of the year. Like the spring equinox in March, it’s one of only two days of the year when day and night are about 12 hours long everywhere on Earth. ” Washington Post

Click here to learn more about the spring (and fall) equinox.