Science? What science?

Reality check...my laundry pile after a week of no Liliputian on laundry, and this is with Chugger-dude up through Avot doing their own laundry!

Fortunately I had a helper :).  Love this guy.  Hope the rope doesn't reflect anything :)...

SCIENCE

Okay.  It was getting towards the end of our school day on Wednesday.  The kids were just getting home from sign language choir and chess games at their cousins' house and Chugger-dude (11) came up asking, "Did we do science today?"

"Yah...kind of..." I replied, squirming.  "Remember those science books I threw out on the table this morning and how we talked about the scientific and mathematical way of arriving at truth?" He thoughtfully tried to recollect what I was talking about, but inside I knew we needed something more.  They have "Science" for one of their "check-offs" for the week for our New York records and they know that they are not getting graded on this, but it is just a record.  Something about making a record is powerful, though.

So...science.  Experiments! Pipalicious had been glancing though the "Flying Potato, Naked Egg" experiment book I had left out earlier and I "happened" to see an experiment on cleaning pennies with taco sauce.  I love that book because I normally have the ingredients for the experiments!  So I encouraged Chugger-dude to get that out and went back to finishing a blog post.

Half an hour later, dinner in the crockpot is almost done, and Chugger-dude is still wandering around, carrying the pennies he found to use.  Time to engage!  We grabbed some paper cups and engaged!

Did you know that hot sauce/taco sauce is great at cleaning pennies?  Did you know what it was about the hot sauce that did it? We didn't but now we do!  Process of elimination, baby.

So, that was for one of the kids, but I still felt "sciency" so during dinner we watched the following awesome video that Avot (19) had run across earlier that day:

After years of science classes, I think I finally understand potential vs. kinetic energy and why an egg drop works better in some cases than others!  And it is all so cool.  Gonna watch this one again and again :).

(Watch the whole thing and read the end...so inspiring and helpful with perspective about many things!)

Science?  Oh, yah, baby.  Keepin' the dream alive: I should have applied it to make it more core...but the crust can be so much fun as well!

--Possible core connections:
-the taco sauce: what things in our life clean us or our souls?  How do you know? Have you experimented upon the word?
-the egg drop: how do we protect ourselves from falling? What helps us get ready for the inevitable fall?  How do any of these "protections" that the scientist uses mirror the Atonement?

Oh!  I am so excited to ask my kids these questions now as we reflect on our week today!  So fun!  Ahhh...the power of writing and reflecting never ceases to amaze me. I think I get more out of this blogging than anyone!

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Had the discussion, starting with the purpose of using the crust exercise to strengthen our core...epic!