Science is always easier to learn when you can practice it hands on. As a homeschooling family you would have no doubt had some experience with conducting scientific experiments based on what your child’s lessons include. This has to have benefited the homeschool science student greatly, but it is still school work.
Have you ever done something fun which involves using a science principle with your homeschool students? Something that you did just for a lark? Here are a few suggestions for you to have some homeschool science based fun!
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Create Your Own Miniature Water Park
If your children enjoyed the rides at a water park you visited in the summer, you can have them put their heads together to come up with similar rides on a small scale at home. You can plonk a plastic sheet down on the floor and give them containers and connectors of all sizes and shapes to experiment with. Start with transporting water through a series of pipes and tubes from one end of the sheet to the other. Move on to advanced water rides that your children’s toys can take! Allow them to get as innovative and creative as they like.
Add Additional Recording Activities
Once your water channel is set you can have fun recording how long it takes a liter of water to complete the circuit. Have your homschool science students check if half a liter of water takes the same amount of time to complete the circuit. Add water till the entire ride is saturated and then measure how much water the water channel can hold when full to the brim. Ask the children to come up with their own measurement activities.
Create a Fountain or a Waterfall
Flowing water is of great visual interest to children. Have them create landscapes where they make waterfalls or teach them how to create a fountain with an empty plastic soda bottle. Just punch some holes into the bottle with a hot metal skewer and add water. Now the fountain can be turned on or off by merely replacing the cap. Ask them to come up with other ways to make water flow in the landscape you have created.
Article Inspiration: About Homeschooling
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