SOLAR POWER
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| Solar Grasshopper |
Our first year at Freedom Christian School
Julian and I learn (painfully) all about preparing for a science fair.
Never having done one in my entire life (not even with my other two children)
I felt lost this whole preparing time...
BUT Freedom has amazing 'workshops' and an amazing support system
that if you don't get it together... It would be a fault of your own ;)
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| Julian holding his Solar Grasshopper |
They begin the process of the science fair at the beginning of the school year.
Giving you 5 months of step by step goals to reach with each step being graded.
By February you should be well prepared with a final research paper
and complete display done when the science fair arrives.
I believe we missed a couple of those goals...
We will see by the result of his grade when this is all said and done.
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| Julian's display board at the fair |
Im extremely happy it is all done, but I am proud of this lil man.
*WhEw*
I felt as if I was in school all over again, lol
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| A proud Julian. We made it to the end with a complete research paper and board. |
Julian did his on Solar Power and How it works. We ordered his little solar grasshopper (its body is made up of solar panels) on line through Amazon dot com. We experimented with the little grasshopper in direct sunlight, shade, overcast, at night, in a shadow and even with a strong flash-light to make it shake and move.
Writing in a log-book was a major chore... Mr. Moore (his teacher) told us to jot down every thing we did; to looking on line, checking out library books, every workshop we would attend to the time of day we had the grasshopper outside. Have you ever tried to write down every thing you ate? ChOrE... right?!? Well this was exactly the same concept... Keeping tract of everything we did with this project. It had to be done, it was a part of his grade to have a filled log book. We did it and it sits there on the table next to his research paper.
YAY!!!
My daughter sat with my nappers and gave me the opportunity to head to the school and take a peek at all the science displays in the fair... I took some pictures just for the purpose to share with you the amazing work these children did at Freedom Christian. I was thoroughly impressed and the thought ran through my mind; Ugh... Julian better have got this down for the next years to come, lol.
I loved the fact of the scripture reference the upper grades had to provide as part of their findings of whatever they had chose. Impressive?? Yes, very!
Fish...
Baseball bats...
Gum...
Social Network...
Radiation...
Orange Juice...
*WHEW what a long five months...*
