Science Overload

I have been under a bit of a science overload this past few weeks, I feel slightly drained by the pace the kids have gone with this one, the twins have been asking lots of questions that I have had to google the answer for, but good old Google has come up with the answers for me and not let me down. 

With Easter Weekend coming up the kids asked the all essential questions that they do at this time of year, such as what is God?, how do we know he exists!

This lead onto learning a little about Quantum Fluctuations:-

I also discovered a series made by Morgan Freeman entitled the Story of God, which looks at what different civilizations thought about the act of creation and other big questions that mankind has continuously asked, this is a long series which we left on in the background and  dipped in and out of to the questions we wanted addressed.

This opened up the discussion about the different perspectives people have and how Quantum fluctuations relates to this, well we had to look further and found the Wheeler- DeWitt Equation...

This lead us onto looking at the different mathematical equations, Olivia being the maths wizz recognised PI and was very excited to see so many equations and as they had done the Greek Alphabet with Badgers and were very excited and inspired to see that the Greek Alphabet was also included.

We talked about the different science disciplines and looked at some great videos explaining what each discipline covers. Olivia keeps saying she wants to be a doctor so I asked her what she wants to be a doctor of? I explained that to be a doctor means you have done a doctorate, so we looked at some of the things she could specialise in, her favourite discipline is within Biology, so she was extremely excited when I showed her the following video about all the different elements of Biology that she could explore.

Oliver became curious and although he seems to have a very physics based interest in science, once we had watched the Chemistry Map video and the Physics Map video, we discovered that we have in fact covered more on the Chemistry side. 

Because we do not break what we learn down into subjects, it is often quite difficult to compartmentalise what we do, until you look at things this way. Usually we go with whatever the kids ask about or what we find out about in passing or whatever catches our attention and I go back to what we have learnt and try to put that into a perspective and fit it into a legible useful form that connects what they have learnt and layer it on top of what they have previously learnt, like building blocks.

Don't even ask me how but a familiar name kept popping up so we learnt a bit about who Archimedes was:-

And then watched the Bill Nye The Science Guy video about Buoyancy:-

As you can imagine the kids now have plenty of experiments in mind...

Phew I am exhausted, but no rest for the wicked, we have the SCI Art Stem Cell Explorers two day workshop to be getting on with tomorrow!...

Amongst all that the kids have been busy making Easter themed pictures..

and we have been reading together the fabulous A Wrinkle in Time (click the picture to buy)

We have enjoyed a fabulous trip on the CBBC Interactive tour where the kids found out what it was like to be at the other side of the camera..

There are lots that I have missed out but it has been a busy few weeks...