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Science Sunday: Ocean currents experiment

April 24, 2011 Ticia 13 Comments

 

We’ve started our next science book, Exploring Creation with Zoology 2: Swimming Creatures {affiliate link}.  Or as my kid call it “The Ocean science book.”

learning about currents in the ocean

The first chapter is basically setting up what the ocean is like.  So, we first read about plankton, and many other things, and then we got to currents, and I remembered All Things Beautiful having a wonderful ocean currents experiment and all sorts of things (she has older kids, so went into a lot more detail).

ocean current experiment

 So, we happily set up our ocean currents and our oh so official land masses for our experiment.

For full explanation of set up and science head over to All Things Beautiful, but here’s my kid’s observations:

 

what happens when an ice cube is added

And after talking about that for a little while we did the next step of our ocean currents experiment.

ocean current experiment with water

 

Blowing on it, to simulate wind and other surface events that affect the oceans.  It was hilarious seeing them blow it all over and their amazement at the colors mixing.  Then we talked about how someone in the United States could drop trash in the ocean and how that could affect someone in Africa.

 

In our science book there was a hilarious example about a boat carrying Nike shoes that sunk in Atlantic Ocean Gyre.  Scientists were rubbing their hands in glee as they theorized what would happen to the shoes, and they got to watch as the shoes moved exactly where they predicted.

Of course they didn’t really say how it got cleaned up, but it was a great example of how something that is dropped in one place can

 

Quick reminder to those of you linking up:

 

1.  Don’t forget to link to your exact post (I read most of the posts on the Friday after so I can catch all the posts added in for the week).  Also, I go back from time to time as I remember someone did ________________ that was super cool.  It’s much easier to do if you’ve linked to your exact post.

 

2.  Please remember to put a link back to Science Sunday.  Either put in the button, or just make a word hyper link.

 

HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE!

STEM swimming creatures, zoology

Comments

  1. Phyllis says

    April 24, 2011 at 11:11 am

    It worked really well for you!!! Super!!

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  2. Phyllis says

    April 24, 2011 at 11:26 am

    Oh, yes…and Happy Easter!

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  3. learning ALL the time!!/Susan says

    April 24, 2011 at 1:33 pm

    Don't you just love how you can customize things to your own kids?! Looks like a good learning experience 🙂

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  4. learning ALL the time!!/Susan says

    April 24, 2011 at 1:33 pm

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  5. Leptir says

    April 24, 2011 at 1:38 pm

    Happy Easter 🙂

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  6. Debbie says

    April 24, 2011 at 3:02 pm

    I just got this curriculum for free, looking forward now to digging into it. Happy Easter!

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  7. Raising a Happy Child says

    April 24, 2011 at 7:57 pm

    I have to check out this experiment too when the weather is better. I love to take water experiments outside. Happy Easter!

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  8. An Almost Unschooling Mom says

    April 24, 2011 at 10:39 pm

    That really is a cool experiment – eventually I'd like to do all of Phyllis' experiments!

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  9. Discovering Montessori says

    April 24, 2011 at 11:56 pm

    Nice! Loved how you tied in the connection on how water can make things travel to far places. Happy Easter to you and your family!!

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  10. Christy says

    April 25, 2011 at 12:01 am

    That is a great experiment. Happy Easter!

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  11. Wonder Mom says

    April 25, 2011 at 2:09 am

    I so enjoy seeing how we can all glean from one another's blogs…

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  12. Kim says

    April 25, 2011 at 11:51 am

    This looks fantastic. I bet the kids thought it was cool.

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  13. Serena says

    April 26, 2011 at 6:40 pm

    Looks like fun!

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