Science Project

We have been using Exploring Creation with Astronomy this year for science. I absolutely love this science curriculum. It is an immersion approach, therefore, we will be studying astronomy all year.

The author, Jeannie Fulbright, discusses throughout each lesson how God created everything and gives facts on how our earth did not JUST happen. For instance, we learned what thermonuclear fusion was. Because of thermonuculear fusion, the sun gets brighter and brighter each year. Therefore, if we were to go back in time, we would see the sun getting dimmer and dimmer. So...if the earth were created billions of years ago, the sun would have been so dim that could not have provided enough warmth for life on earth.

We studied Venus a couple weeks ago and did an experiment about how radar works. Because Venus has such a thick layer of clouds that covers it, spacecraft cannot see the surface. So they have to use radar to see what the surface looks like. This project used a method something like how a radar works.

I first used newspaper and paper mache to create mountains inside a box. But Madisyn was not allowed to see the inside. Then I covered it. She then drew a grid to put on top. We used a skewer and color coded it. She then proceeded to poke the skewer inside the box through a numbered square. When the skewer hit something she would see what color the skewer stopped at. Then she would color the square with the corresponding color. By using the color coded skewer and the grid, she was able to tell if she hit a flat surface or a taller surface within the box. It was a really fun project!