This week, the students learned about flower anatomy and how it helps to facilitate pollination. They also learned about the relationship between plants and pollinators, and the impact it has on our food supply.

In this lesson, students learned about the life cycle of plants and the importance of greenhouses and facilitating plant growth. They then designed and built their own greenhouse and will be monitoring their plants progress for the next few weeks.

This week, the students learned about the different properties of solids and liquids, and a new liquid called non-newtonian liquids. Using these learnings, the students worked with cornstarch and determined what propertities they could identify using their new learnings.

This week, students used common household ingredients to create an explosion of color. The science behind this art is surface tension! Additionally, milk fat contributed to the reaction time as the milk with the greatest fat created the greatest reaction of color.

This week, students learned about acids and bases. By using red cabbage, they were able to visually see the difference of acidity of various sour drinks. Then they were introduced to bases and how acids and bases contrast one another.

This week, the students used candy and salt water to see how different colors travel up paper. This process is chromatography, analyzing how far material travels up filter paper.

For this week, the students learned about DNA and the importance of it in all living things. Then, they extracted DNA from strawberries with simple household ingredients. Followed by that, they were able to extract their own DNA from their spit with the same process!

This week we introduced our new lesson in Food Sciences. To begin, the students learned about DNA and how it creates life. Then moving towards creating DNA models with candy by matching together colored gummy bears with Twizzlers as the backbone. Lastly, the delve into the size of DNA and how it's all fit into the body.

In this lesson, students learned about the history of catapults. From this, they designed safe catapults with popsicle sticks and rubber bands. Then they'd load them with cotton balls and launch them with various forces to try and accurately predict where the cotton balls would land.

In this lesson, the kids learned about the importance of structural integrity: balencing height and stability. First they observed different stuctures of the world and how they're able to handle weight while also being some of the largest buildings in the world. Then they built towers using toothpicks and marshmallows, testing their designs with weights.