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Earth's Crust

We heated this apple in the oven to represent Earth in the very beginning and then we cooled it down and watched the apple change shape, like Earth.

Making goop from cornstarch and water to represent the Earth's mantle.

We made goop and discovered how it could be both a SOLID...

and a LIQUID at the same time, just like the Earth's mantle.

This represents the Earth's crust floating on the solid/liquid mantle.

Volcanoes

making play dough

Emily stirring the play dough

play dough over newspaper and water bottle volcano

eruption

carbon dioxide chemical reaction experiment

Ethan's finished volcano

Emily's finished volcano

eruption

eruption

Rock Quarry

Today we took a tour of a rock quarry.  It was amazing!  It covered 115 acres and was 485 feet deep!  The pictures just don't do it justice.  It was a HUGE hole!  The acreage around the top of the quarry was dedicated to preserving animal habitats.  They have planted butterfly gardens, hung many bluebird houses and butterfly houses, built 6 ponds, and left the rest of the acreage untouched for other animals to safely live there.

standing at the edge of the rock quarry

it's huge!

Emily

huge dump truck

huge tires on huge dump truck

Roots & SHoots group picture

prespective on the hugeness of the truck

Ethan behind dump truck

soda cans lined up to be smashed to smithereens under truck tire

smashed completely flat

 

Very cool natural rock formation

Read more about it here

Other Fun Earth Experiments To Do

 

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