We've been letting Bear watch Sid the Science Kid in the evenings. The timing of the show isn't great. I wish it were on in the afternoon, but I don't have a way to record it. One week, every episode dealt with the human body. The day of the digestive system, Sid and his friends did a fast experiment to show how your stomach digests food.
You need 1 lemon, a ziploc bag, and a cracker, a knife, and a hand held juicer or just strong hands for squeezing the lemon.
First, slice the lemon in half.
(I was supervising. She is VERY good at cutting and I really don't worry too much anymore, though my husband isn't used to seeing her with sharp knives and flinches as she cuts.)
Put the juice in the ziploc bag.
Break the cracker up a bit (to simulate the chewing) and put it in the bag.
Squeeze the bag (I mean stomach) for a while and watch what happens to the cracker.
Then record what you saw.
I was quite impressed that Bear was able to draw so much of it. I was busy cleaning up and missed the whole process. But she dictated what I should write after she'd drawn.
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I'm linking up to Science Sunday at Adventures in Mommydom.
Anna absolutely loves Sid the Science Kid, and I love their 5 minute experiments. She especially likes the ones about human body, of course. We did record them, and now she can choose any of 41 episodes. Well, right now she is on break from them - in fact, she didn't express any desire to watch TV in a while, she is too busy playing.
ReplyDeleteI love that experiment. And I'm totally impressed with her drawing the results of the experiment. I need to work on having my kids draw the results.
ReplyDeleteI can't decide if I like Sid the Science Kid, or not. But, that is a nice simple experiment. I like that you had her draw out her findings.
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ReplyDeleteI didn't like it for a long time, but it has grown on me. They do a lot of singing and dancing and it gets my two moving (we all dance as a family to the songs and we look very silly but it is a lot of fun!) while they watch and I am grateful for that aspect of it.
Selena enjoys Sid The Science Kid. She also enjoyed doing this experiment! However, I love your extension of having Bear draw out her experiment.
ReplyDeleteLove this idea! We're learning about the human body right now, so I'm going to use it for one of our experiments this week. Thanks for the idea!
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