What if there were no electricity?
Your 4th - 6th grade student will be introduced to electricity as a form of energy and investigate how electrical energy requires a circuit. Make your own mini flashlight from LEDs, button batteries and strips of aluminum foil.
When you turn on the faucet, where does your water come from?
Your 4th - 6th grade student will learn about the existence of underground water. Your family can play a game to select the best site to build a town by evaluating the features of the landscape, plants in the area and clues from the soil and then decide where to dig a well.
Where does energy come from?
Your 4th - 6th grade student will discover the different sources of energy and complete an activity helping a town get all the energy it needs.
How much water is in the world?
Your 4th - 6th grade student will use estimation and graphing to discover the surprising difference in the amounts of fresh and salt water on earth.