I LOVE SCIENCE!!!!

I love sience. It is so much fun. There are 3 great science museums that I have gone to. The Museum of Science in Boston is great. I can spend the whole day there. I can not wait until the Brownie troop goes there over night. They have great thing to do. You can sit in a space capsule. Watch baby chicks get born. And see where we came from. I love the part where we see electricity it makes such a loud sound. It looks like lightening. There is a big model, as tall as the museun of a T-Rex.

The Liberty Science Center in New Jersey is also a great place to go. We saw the inside of an ambulance. I played soccer on a virtual reality game. There was a small aqaurium, with interactive exhibits. I had to make a dam to stop the water. There was a computer exhibit. We explored things with each of our 5 senses. I had to go through a tunnel without seeing. It was very scary and I spranged my thumb doing it. I put together bones to make part of a body. I saw snakes and different spiders, including a tarantula. There was a small garden to go to. From the top of the museum you can see the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island.

The Discovery Museum in Acton MA. Is also lots of fun. There are two huge whispering dishes outside. When you whisper into one the person standing by the other can hear you. You can look for fossils, stand in the middle of a tornado and learn lots about enegy with marbles, dominos, and pulleys. You touch everything here. They even have a small workshop with tool so you can make things and an art center with all kind of thing to make your own inventions. Even though it is a small museum it was a lot of fun. The museum is divided into 2 different buildings. One for little kids in which each room is a different part of the animal world. It also has a lego room where every part of the room can have a lege peice on it. The other bulding is for older kids. That is the one I went to.

Did You Know.....

Did you know that a mosquito flaps its wings about 1000 times per minute?

Did you know that the Koala never drinks because it gets it all from the leaves of the eucalyptus tree?

Did you know that an elephant can eat up to 500 pounds of food a day, and can drink 40 gallons of water each time they drink?

Did you know that skunks are resistant to the poison in snake bites? They can survive ten times the amount of poison we can.

Did you know that they only discovered theKomodo Dragon in 1912? It can eat a deer at one time and then sleep for a week!

Did you know that crocodiles and alligators are the relatives of reptiles that lived up to 65 million years ago.

Did you know that cows have four stomachs.? Did you also know that it would take 245 million cows standing on top of eachother, before the top cow could literally jump over the moon.

Did you know that Dolphins are very intelligent animals? Their brain is larger in porportion to their bodies than ours is. Scientists think that dolphins have a communication system where dolphins have their own names or "signature whistles."

DO YOU WANT TO GO TO MARS?

You can not go yet, but part of you can. NASA is collecting 1 million kids names, to send on a CD ROM in the payload of the Mars Polar Launcher. The Launcher will be landing on Mars on December 31, 1999. This is really cool!! When you are done filling in the form you can even print out a certificate of participation. Just click on NASA above to get there.

Experiment for March.

Rock Candy

**What you Need**

1) A pot to boil water in.

2) 2 cups of sugar

3) 1 cup of water

4) A wood spoon, not metal!!!

5) A glass jar. A spaghetti sauce jar does well.

6) string

7) scissors

8) plastic wrap

9) a pencil

***HAVE AN ADULT HELP YOU WITH THIS EXPERIMENT!!!! NEVER USE A STOVE OR WORK WITH BOILING WATER WITHOUT AN ADULT THERE.***

The Directions

1) Boil the water with the help of an adult.

2) When it starts to boil add the 2 cups of sugar.

3) Stir and continue to boil for a little while.

4) Take your pencil and tie a piece of the string to it. Put the pencil across the top of the jar make sure the end of the string does not touch the bottom of the jar. Remove the pencil and string.

5) Once all the sugar has disolved into the boiling water, have an adult pour it into the jar.

6) Now place the pencil over the top of the jar with the string haning down into the jar. Make sure that the string is in the liquid.

7) When you do not see anymore steam, wrap the top of the jar in the plastic wrap.

8) Put the jar in a place where it will not get moved. In a few days you can pull out the string and eat the candy.

In this experiment you saw how a liquid became steam and then became a solid. You also made some great candy.

Experiment for

August!

The reflection of light!

**What you will need**

1 pencil

1 glass of water

Directions

Have you ever noticed how items look different in water. How sometimes you go to pick up a shell at the beach and found out it isn't where you thought it was? There is a scienntifc term for this it is refraction. When light goes through water it slows down a bit. When the light enters the water at an angle then this change in speed causes the light to bend away from its original spot. Lets DO IT!

1)fill your glass 2/3 full of water.

2) Now place your pencil straight into the water. Do not let it fall over! hold it straight up and down. Look through the glass. Your pencil should still look the same.

3)Now take your pencil and lean it against the side of your glass. The pencil should look like it has bent.This is refraction!!!!

Experiment for September

Air Pressure

**What you will need**

1) 1 empty soda can

2) 2 or 3 quart sauce pan

3) kitchen tongs

Directions

Fill the pan with cold water. Put about 1 tablespoon of water into the empty soda can.Heat the can on the stove until the water starts to boil. Allow the water to boil for about 30 seconds. Now take the tongs take the can put it upside down and dip it into the cold water in the pan. The can will collapse almost at once!

Why???- When you heated the can the vapor from the water pushed all the air out of the can. Cooling the can by placing it in the cold water caused the water vapor to condense leaving the can empty.When the can was empty the air pressure from the air outside caused the can to collapse.

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