Course
Elementary School: Messy Discoveries
SCI-90033
Students will conduct messy and noisy experiments as they investigate glaciers, volcanoes, earthquakes, landslides, permafrost, sea level rise and tsunamis. We will make slime-like “flubber” to model glacier movement and create a landscape in a box to simulate the destructive power of earthquakes and tsunamis. Students will also observe lava flow in a volcano fueled by baking soda and vinegar. These and other fun, hands-on experiments provide an engaging introduction to geology, seismology, oceanography and other branches of Earth science.
What you'll learn
- Learn about glaciers, volcanoes, earthquakes and other Earth science phenomena through messy experiments.
- Gain a basic understanding of a variety of phenomena in Earth science.
- Model the movement of a glacier using “flubber”.
- Use water and ice to simulate ice-ocean interactions.
- Create a landscape in a box and then model the effects of earthquakes and tsunamis.
- Observe a model volcano during an eruption caused by combining baking soda and vinegar.
- Learn about the forces that cause landslides.
- Investigate how sea level rise affects salinity.
Course Information
1.50 units
TBD