Paleontologists

The Seventh Age scientists had a wonderful time exploring the Science Center last week!

 

Silk Worms

We have a new batch of silk worms in the science room! If you have mulberry bushes around your house please bring in some leaves for our new friends.

 

 

Happy Earth Day!

Today the 7th agers cleaned up Calvert's campus in honor of Earth Day.

 

Mercury

Today we learned about the closest planet to the sun, MERCURY!

 

We found that Mercury has some similarities to our moon: Craters, no air, and they both can be very hot!

 



 

 

 So, we built space probes that could travel to Mercury without getting burned by the hot sun.

Friction

Today 7-1 learned that a cotton ball moves faster on the floor compared to the carpet. We know this is true because friction slows down moving objects and the carpet created more friction than the floor.

 

All About Magnets!

How many paper clips can your magnet attract?

7th Age Record: 147

 

Tornado Alley

We explored tornadoes in Seventh Age science this week. The students added water, vinegar, and dish soap to make a tornado in a jar! We agreed that the tornado looked more like a rope tornado than a wedge tornado because it was so thin!

 

Volcanoes!

The Seventh Age students did an excellent job creating volcanoes out of vinegar, baking soda, and food coloring. We learned that when the melted rock is inside of the volcano it is called magma, and when the volcano erupts the magma is called lava.