Fun with Science!

On Tuesday we will be meeting with our home school support group. We meet every Tuesday to do things together and since this Tuesday is St. Patrick's Day we decided to do something special. We'll all be bringing food to share but I offered to do a science project too. I let them (the kids) vote on either a slime science project or a color splitting activity with candy and coffee filters. Well needless to say slime one out. Maybe next time I should poll the parents instead, lol. I found a nice site for experiments at ScienceBob. In doing the research for the lesson I came across a group of websites that I hope I will get to use a lot of. Chem4kids, Biology4kids, Geography4kids, Cosmos4kids, Physics4Kids, and NumberNut. The last one is math not science but I want to check it out more maybe I can use it if we need some extra work. Trying to remember some of the information to teach it is difficult sometimes. I know the information but trying to gather it together so that it makes sense for that lesson, it can be hard sometimes. These sites seem to help. I only really used Chem4kids for the slime project information. I also didn't want to use all of the information either. There's enough there for a lot of different lessons. There are a number of different age groups that I have to consider. So I have different levels of knowledge already known for some but I don't want them to get bored. But then at the same time I don't want it to difficult for the younger ones either. I wanted something fun for the kids to do and we can make it green for St. Patrick's day!! Hope you have fun on St. Patrick's day, I know we will!!