In science we talked about how advertisements and commercials claim that their product is the best product to do a certain job. I asked how can you tell whether their claim is true. Can both have the same claim and both be right? Of course not, one has to be better than the other.
We took two brands of paper towels that both claim to soak up the most liquid and we put them to the test. We chose Bounty and Viva, both brands claimed to soak up the most liquid on the front of their packaging. We marked the brands A and B. Liberty made a hypothesis on which one she thought would soak up the most and we went to work to see.
We first filled up two dishes with 400 ml of water, and marked them with A and B. We then put each paper towel in their proper container. Liberty timed them letting them soak for 30 seconds. We took them out and set them aside. Liberty then re measured each bowl of water and wrote down the results. In our experiment Bounty was brand A and Viva was Brand B. A Bowl had 325 ml of water left and bowl B had 350 ml of water left. Bounty's claim in our experiment was the one that won.
Liberty timing how long the paper towels are soaked
Teyla is still studying senses in Science we only to science two or 3 times a week with her. On Tuesday Teyla had an experiment on distinguishing smells. I took a lemon slice, baby powder, a peppermint candy, an orange slice, and some cinnamon and placed each thing in their own cup. I covered them with foil and poked some wholes in them. Teyla then had to smell each cup then write down what she thought was in each cup. She then looked in each cup and checked to see if what she smelled was correct. We talked about how some things smell like other things and some things are just have a very distinctive smell, like oranges and lemons.
On Wednesday Morning we took a trip out to the Humane Society. Michelle was kind enough to schedule it and include us. We took a tour of the facility where they told us what they were all about. They talked about the care of the animals and how before any of the animals can be adopted they have to pass a check list. Among those things are the animals have to be spade or neutered. After the tour they watched a video on animal safety. It was about how to go about petting dogs that don't belong to us, and what to do when they see a dog they don't know. After the video they had a test over the video. It was a fun test. Oreo a very cute 2 month old puppy was brought into the room. They had to go up and follow the instructions on the video for meeting a new dog. Everyone did great and all were able to pet the puppy and even got to feed him a treat. That was then end of our field trip, but they said we could go in and pet the kitties if we liked and of course we liked. We had a great time giving all those kitties attention, before we left we went into the store. They have stuff for dogs and cats toys and food and other such things, all proceeds go to helping out the animals. We decided that we would buy our pets something a little special as our souvenir from our field trip.
When we got home we talked about fire prevention. Watched a video over it and then took a test. Each of the kids past and became Jr. Fire Marshall's. Leland's work in sponsoring a fire prevention poster contest so the two girls got to work on making a poster. The theme for the poster was "Protect Your Family From Fire". Here are their posters.
This was a week of field trips. On Thursday we went and watched Dolphin Tale. Liberty this year is doing two curriculum's for science. Bob Jones and Apologia. In Apologia we are are studying mammals, so I thought Dolphin Tale would be a great movie to watch. I gotta say it was an amazing movie and I'm glad we were able to watch it.
Tomorrow we have a field trip planned to Walter's Pumpkin Patch so I'm sure there will be lots of pictures.
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