For Wow factor, this video is pretty cool. It shows two engineers “studying” what happens when you pop a water balloon in zero gravity. Warning: the scientists do discuss in some detail how they were hit with air sickness during their initial experiences with zero gravity. If you think it might be a bit too much detail for sensitive youngsters, you can turn the sound off and narrate yourself.
I admit it, I wasn’t sure I was going to be able to come up with something new to show you this week. Even though the weather is getting nice and the flowers are blooming, it just seemed like I’d seen it all before.
Well, at least until I visited our snapdragons…
Now who is that with its head in the snapdragon?
I’m afraid this post will require an edit, because I don’t know what kind of caterpillar this is. Do you have any guesses?
If your child is interested in becoming a scientist, then she or he should check out the I Want to be an ‘ologist page at the Natural History Museum. Learn about a paleontologist (Andy Ross), an entomologist (Zoe Adams), a mineralogist (Mike Rumsey), a zoologist (Miranda Lowe) and a botanist (Mark Spencer).
Wow, I wish I had been able to see information like this when I was a kid. Although if I had read the one about the entomologist I might never have become one 🙂
If you don’t see the ‘ologist your child is interested in, leave me a comment and I’ll try to find you someone appropriate.
For more information, see Roberta Gibson Writes.
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