Nothing can stop--the smooze!
Muwahahahaha! I have achieved smooze.
If you have never made smooze, get a bowl, put some cornstarch in, and start adding water very slowly. Eventually you will end up with this glop that can't decide whether it's a solid or a liquid--you'll go to scoop it up, and it feels solid, and then you lift up your hand and it drips through your fingers. Food coloring makes it much more fun, even if my fingertips are now dyed blue. (An equal amount of red and blue will get you a nice smoozey color.)
Anyway, that's the centerpiece in my super-messy "Solids, Liquids, and Gases" library program. What better way to learn? Miss Frizzle would totally approve.
Unfortunately, the eight other programs that I need to have designed by Friday are...significantly less complete. I still need to make a construction-paper Pangaea puzzle to see if that will work, and I need to finish drinking this Coke so that I can use the bottle to test the baking soda volcano. (Why a baking soda volcano? Because I never got to make one when I was a kid, that's why.) And someone checked out the book with the oil-spill experiment, so now I have to wing it. Heh, wing it. Because I'm using an oil-dipped feather to test the...okay, never mind. That wasn't funny.
If you have never made smooze, get a bowl, put some cornstarch in, and start adding water very slowly. Eventually you will end up with this glop that can't decide whether it's a solid or a liquid--you'll go to scoop it up, and it feels solid, and then you lift up your hand and it drips through your fingers. Food coloring makes it much more fun, even if my fingertips are now dyed blue. (An equal amount of red and blue will get you a nice smoozey color.)
Anyway, that's the centerpiece in my super-messy "Solids, Liquids, and Gases" library program. What better way to learn? Miss Frizzle would totally approve.
Unfortunately, the eight other programs that I need to have designed by Friday are...significantly less complete. I still need to make a construction-paper Pangaea puzzle to see if that will work, and I need to finish drinking this Coke so that I can use the bottle to test the baking soda volcano. (Why a baking soda volcano? Because I never got to make one when I was a kid, that's why.) And someone checked out the book with the oil-spill experiment, so now I have to wing it. Heh, wing it. Because I'm using an oil-dipped feather to test the...okay, never mind. That wasn't funny.