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Science Fun: Universe in a Jar
by Kathryn Martinez (Kathryn's bio)
[Note: If you'd like to read more from Kathryn, be sure to check out her web site.]
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Here’s a really fun project. It’s a cross between arts & crafts and an astronomy lesson. All of the supplies are inexpensive or recycled.
Variations on this theme have been done on this project before, but I like this one the best. It gives lots of movement but doesn't cost much at all to create.
Supplies:
Baby food jar
Water
Cooking oil or baby oil
Sequins
Aluminum foil
Sparkles
Blue food coloring (optional)
Black paint (optional)
Stickers
Scissors
Glue
Directions:
1. Paint the lid of the baby food jar black and/or decorate with stickers.
2. Put about a tablespoon of oil in the jar.
3. Add some sparkles, some sequins (star shape, moon shape and circle shape all work great) and some small balled up pieces of aluminum foil (cut 1 inch square pieces of aluminum foil and let your child ball them up).
4. Fill the jar with water.
5. Put a few drops of blue food coloring in the jar.
6. Put the lid on the jar TIGHTLY.
7. Shake the jar see the universe.
Copyright 2001 Kathryn Martinez. All rights reserved. Used with permission.
| About Kathryn Martinez: I'm a SAHM, home schooling mother of 4 children, 1 husband, and a neurotic cat. This is our sixth year of home schooling. I worked for over 10 years at USF in an education and training department. I hope that by sharing my experience with other home schoolers, both the new and the not-so-new and those just considering home schooling, I will pass along all the help that was given to me when I first started out. |