Teaching your homeschool students about science should always be accompanied with fun activities. If you can hook them when they are in elementary grades, they will become science enthusiasts for life. You don’t need a full fledged science laboratory to help them conduct interesting experiments. All you need is some stuff lying around the house and you are ready for fun time! Here are some simple experiments that your homeschool classroom can easily conduct. All you need to do is give them instructions and supervise.
Make a Rainbow on a White Sheet of Paper
Take them out into the sunlight with a clear glass of water. Place the water glass, which should be see-through, on a table’s edge. Now give them the white sheet of paper and ask them to catch the rainbow on the sheet. Teach them how to angle it below the glass of water and spot all the different colors.
Make a Rain Cloud in a Mason Jar
Not sunny outside? Let’s make clouds indoors. Take a mason jar and fill it up with clear water. Now fill the inch on top of the water with Dad’s white shaving foam. Get some blue liquid color from the kitchen and begin to add drops of the color to the foam. As the food color slips through the cloud of the foam it will begin to form the rain in the liquid water. You may just get a little tornado in the mason jar.
Make a Volcano in a Glass
It’s best to do this outside the house if you detest cleaning up sticky and gooey stuff. Take a glass which is clear and place it on the ground. Now add some drinking soda to it. It can be any flavor. Next take a Mentos candy and place it in the glass. Move back and watch the lava flow from the volcano that you just created.
These are just a few examples of fun science based activities that you can do with your elementary homeschool students. Find many more such activities on the internet with a quick search. Pick the ones you like best and you are set.
