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Weather station: wind sock 5 Jun 2012 | 05:45 am
After the wind vane, and the anemometer, we will end the wind observation devices making a wind sock. That will let us know the direction the wind blows from, and how hard the wind blows. To make a ....
ExperCiencia in “Ciència al carrer” in Lleida (Spain) 31 May 2012 | 06:13 am
As we had announced, experCiencia has participated in the science exhibition: “ciència al carrer” (science on the street) in Lleida (Spain) with different experiments to discover the composition of mi...
Weather station: rain gauge 31 May 2012 | 06:06 am
We will explain today how to build a rain gauge to record rainfalls. We need a plastic bottle, scotch tape, a cutter, a ruler, a permanent marker and some small river pebbles. We can start by cutti....
Weather station: anemometer 30 May 2012 | 10:27 am
We will continue today with the wind observation from our weather station building an anemometer that will let us know how hard the wind blows. We need two straws, a plastic or paper plate, 4 cups (....
Building a weather station: wind vane 29 May 2012 | 10:22 am
In the last days, the weather has been changing: windy days followed by rainy days, high temperatures, fog, thunderstorms...so we have started a project of meteorological observation to try to find ou...
The chemistry of bread 27 Sep 2011 | 10:21 am
We have started our activities in the new school year with a new session of chemistry in the kitchen. Actually, they have been some different sessions where we have made bread in a process that lasted...
Experiments in summer: ice science and art 20 Aug 2011 | 10:17 am
As we needed some new game to maket it more bearable the high temperatures, we have made today a new activity where we managed to combine two of our favorite activities: science and art. Based on this...
Summer experiments: exploring dirt and mud 7 Aug 2011 | 10:36 am
We will continue with other activities of scientific experimentation and outdoor play. Following some of the ideas found in this blog, we have been collecting in glass jars some soil samples from the ...
Summer experiments: ice, water, cold, hot 16 Jul 2011 | 02:21 am
We have been doing some activities to learn something else about water and ice. We started making some ice cubes in different colors (made with food coloring) We have taken all those cubes outside and...
Digging up fossils 9 Jun 2011 | 09:25 am
After our last visit to the Blau Museum in Barcelona, we still had pending a scientific activity that was to make our own fossils, so we got to work on it. We tried two types of fossils. We made the ...
