Growing Germs- Update #2

Dirt


Control



Hands-Gross! Now that's what we're talking about!



Floor



Learing all the time.
Marcus Garvey School of Thought
'Up you mighty race, you can accomplish what you will.'

Growing Germs!!-Update

Ok, so we checked the potatoes last Thursday and the results are in. We were expecting something more scientifically gross. LOL! So per Zion's request, we put the potatoes back into the dark cool cabinet, and will check again this Thursday. Will post those results as well. Of course, there are signs of mold on the potatoes, white spots, and some dark spots forming.

Control


Hands


Dirt


Floor


Learning all the time!
Marcus Garvey School of Thought
'Up you mighty race, you can accomplish what you will.'

Growing Germs!!

We enjoy applied learning! Home Science Tools is one of our favorite online sources for science kits. Last month's Young Science Explorers newsletter was all about Germs. My older child sent in a question about germs, and her question was picked and featured in the newsletter! Yay! Each newsletter has cool experiments for you to try out! Below is the experiment Growing Germs.

Put first slice of potato into a bag and mark Control.


Rub second potato all over on floor and mark bag Floor.


Take third potato outside and rub dirt on it.


Remove gloves and rub hands all over fourth potato.


Place bags in a dark cool place. Wait one week. Stay tune for our results!


Learning all the time!
Marcus Garvey School of Thought
'Up you mighty race, you can accomplish what you will.'

Counting Like The Ancient People

No inhibitions when it comes to home education. My reason for home-schooling- to allow my children to have the joy of learning- to let my children understand that they can go as far as they desire with learning, regardless of age. I am even reeducating myself during this process, learning things that were never brought to my attention (especially my history here in America and before being brought here).

Lately we have been learning about the history of our modern day number system. Why do we have decimals? Where does the base 10 come from? How does the ancient numbering systems compare with our modern day system? Do humans have a strong Number Sense? Learn the answers to those questions and more here.

Counting like the Egyptians.



Counting like the Mayans, using base 20.


Learning all the time!
Marcus Garvey School of Thought
'Up you mighty race, you can accomplish what you will.'