Science Experiments

I was poking around last night on the computer and found some old Bill Nye and Mr. Wizard videos. We homeschool, so today I worked with the two older kids on magnets. We messed with a little magnet kit, made a compass with a needle and glass of water, and took apart an old harddrive which has a couple heavy magnets in it that controls the mechanical arm that moves across the platters. So my point about Nye and Mr. Wizard is that I found an old clip from Wizard's show that gave a puzzle to cut up a piece of paper with a hole big enough to walk through. They seemed to enjoy that. Back to work tomorrow after a nice 4 day weekend.