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Links & Videos for Kids 6/13/14 ?>

Links & Videos for Kids 6/13/14

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Here’s a list of current video’s and articles I’ve set aside to share with my girls: Science Friday Videos Weeding Out and Dining In: Foraging with Tama Matsuoka Wong Choc Full of Science – Chocolate and Crystals Nothing to Sneeze At – Distance germs travel in a sneeze Inside Insight: Clearing and Staining Fish New York Times Video Bringing Back Europe’s Bison Denali Climbing 13,000 Feet in 100 Degrees Below Zero (Smithsonian) Training at the Top of the World – Snow Boarding…

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Chocolate: A Valentine’s Day Study ?>

Chocolate: A Valentine’s Day Study

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For Valentine’s Day we’re doing a special Science and World study about one of our favorite foods, Chocolate! Here are some of our resources and activities. Free Form Chocolate Hearts Our science experiment was to melt and temper some chocolate to make free form chocolate hearts. Chocolate is a great example of crystals at work. Poorly melted and tempered chocolate will bloom, be dull and covered with white spots. Properly melted chocolate will be shiny, even colored and crack with…

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