Science - Week 4 - Oceans and Whales

Activities to go with Pages 31 - 34:

Orca print out

Orca Connect the Dots

Beluga Whale Print Out

Beluga Whale Connect the Dots

Narwhal Print Out

Narwhal Connect the Dots

Sperm Whale Print Out



Activities to go with pages 35-38:


Krill print out

Gray Whale print out

Right Whale print out


Humpback whale print out

Humpback whale word search

We also visited this website with fun interactive pictures and information about the ocean and creatures that live in it: Deep Sea Strangers

Science, Week 3 - Oceans and Whales

Here is our third week of studying the Ocean and Whales. We are still using the same books, and I am really enjoying them. I am very impressed with the Make it Work! book especially, because it adds a lot of experiments to our lessons and makes it more interesting for Isabella. We also did a gummi bear experiment on osmosis for fun this week.




Pages 19 - 21
Blue Whale Info/Coloring Sheet
Label the Parts of the Baleen Whale
All About Whales

Pages 22-27
Whale Anatomy

Pages 28-30
Porpoise Info/Coloring Sheet
Whale Senses

A list of  Whale Activities

We also read pages 10-19 of the book Make it Work by Andrew Haslam and Barbara Taylor and did the corresponding experiments.

This week we made a hydrometer:

We learned about water pressure by trying to blow up a balloon under water:

We learned about how only the tips of icebergs are above water:

We also learned about osmosis. We put one gummi bear in tap water and one in salt water and waited to see what happened! The link to this experiment and other gummi bear experiments can be found here .

 That is all for our week of science. I hope you have had a great week with your kids! I start college this week so it is getting crazy around here, but I hope to keep up with everything. Feel free to help me out by sharing any cool ideas you have found!

Science, Week 2

Here is our second week working on Oceans for science! We had a lot of fun. I can't believe how many experiments and worksheets there are out there for oceans. We are using Exploring Creation With Zoology 2: Swimming Creatures of the Fifth Day for our main text and supplementing with a few other books and worksheets. All of the worksheets listed today come from www.EnchantedLearning.com



We don't have as much to share this week because of snow days, but we did finish up the first chapter and all of the corresponding activities, which means that next week we will start chapter 2, which is all about whales!
Pages 12 - 15
Sunlight Zone of Ocean
Twilight Zone of Ocean

This is a picture of Isabella's ocean diorama. She will be adding more to it as we study. Right now it only has zoo plankton, phytoplankton, and angler fish. 

This is a picture of Isabella after we did an experiment that shows how being deep in the ocean affects your lung capacity. 

Pages 16 - 17
Label The Earth's Oceans

This is a picture of an experiment from the book where we had hot water with blue food coloring and cold with yellow and watched which way the water moved as they mixed.

Tomorrow is our first geography post, and it is also our first day of co-op so I am very excited!

Science - Oceans

We started a new science book this semester, Exploring Creation With Zoology 2. The first chapter is on Oceans, and we are really enjoying it. I was amazed at how many experiments and resources there are out there on this topic, and I can't wait to try some out and share them with you!



In addition to the text, I got several pages of coloring sheets and other printables from Enchanted Learning, and am using a couple of other books. So far this week we have covered pages 1-11 of Exploring Creation With Zoology. To go along with this text we used the following pages from EnchantedLearning.com:

For pages 1 - 4:
Great White Shark (An example of a Nekton)
Manta Ray (An example of a Nekton)
Shark Glossary---N is for Nekton
Plankton

                                   For pages 5 -7:
                                   Rivers

                                  For pages 8 - 11:
                                  Tides



We also read pages 4 - 9 of the book Life in the Oceans by Lucy Baker
and pages 4 - 9 of Make it Work! Oceans by Andrew Haslam and Barbara Taylor



We did the experiment on page 9 of the Make it Work! book. This experiment was fun because it also helped us learn how a lava lamp works, and would work for a volcano study as well.

The final thing that we did this week for science was an experiment from a website about currents. You can find the experiment here: Teacher Vision - Currents and Waves Experiment
The kids, Alex, in particular, really liked this experiment because when they were done they just kept playing with the straws and the gram cubes in the water. It was like having bathtub playtime at the kitchen table!

So, there you have it. Our 1st week of science. What did you do this week? Got any great websites, experiments, or books to share? Leave me a comment, or a link to your blog, I would love to see what you have going on!