2019-2020's in Terri's 6th-grade class, Tuesday mornings.
Previous years
Are nails bones
How do you grow? Why do you become shorter when you get older
Why does hair dye fade
Why do we make hair
What are fingernails made of
What happens inside your body when you grow
How do nails grow
How do people get facial hair
How do our eyes know to shrink when they adjust to light
Why do some people have better eyes than others
How are we alive
Is man still evolving
How does your body make noises like popping your knuckles or snapping or clapping
What causes paper cuts to hurt so much
How was the earth created
When is the next supernova
Why are scientists saying that the world is going to end but it has not
What is a black hole made of
When will our sun's supernova happen
Is there extraterrestrial life
How do flies know every movement near them
How do birds fly
How do drones recalibrate when a gust of wind blows them off set
How many types of fungus are there
Why is the sky blue
Will global warming destroy the world in the future
How do skunks form the smelly spray
How do bacteria and viruses make you sick
Caves, stuff in caves, underwater caves
How does the Sun work
Also still to be done:
- Speed of sound (outside)
- Water rockets (outside)
- ...
Calendar:
20 Aug - Intro, hair, ant pheremones
26 Aug - How does the eye work
03 Sep - How does the ear work
17 Sep - gravity and black holes
24 Sep - Why is the sky blue
01 Oct - How do birds fly
08 Oct - Airplanes etc.
15 Oct -
How do viruses, bacteria make you sick
22 Oct -
Static electricity with the vdGraaff
29 Oct - The end of the world
11 Nov - Transit of Mercury
19 Nov - Fibonacci numbers
26 Nov - Caves
03 Dec - Light, colors, waves
07 Jan - Fun with liquid nitrogen
14 Jan - DNA
21 Jan - Volcanos, plate tectonics etc.
28 Jan - Why are ants so strong
04 Feb - Global warming etc.
11 Feb -
18 Feb -
25 Feb -
03 Mar -
10 Mar -
17 Mar - Spring break
24 Mar -
31 Mar -
21 Apr -
28 Apr -
05 May - Water rockets
Previous years
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