Science Week 3 - The Earth

We are in our third week of Considering God's Creation and we were covering weekly lesson 5 - The Earth.

We started our lesson out learning the colors of the rainbow - ROY G BIV (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet). J worked on her notebook page from the lesson.

She made a pop-up page of the rainbow colors. She wasn't sure it was going to pop up but she was pleased that it did.

We discovered what colors made up white light by using a prism and a flash light. Then, I gave J some color paddles. She discovered what colors mixed together made other colors.

She worked on a notebook page that I made for the lesson. If you would like the notebook pages, please contact me and I will send them to you. I made several for this lesson - vocabulary flip books, rainbow color flip book, and some review pages.

The next lesson was about the layers of the earth. She worked on her vocabulary pages that I created. We discussed volcanoes, crust, core, etc...

She made a layers of the earth mini book for her notebook.

She made a 3D version of the layers of the earth. I found this idea from Deceptively Educational (link below). This was relatively easy to do and I really like the way it turned out.

Then, J used play dough to make a model of the earth layers. This craft idea came from The Chaos and Clutter (link below). I didn't go into detail about the layers. We just talked about the core, the mantle, and the crust. We did investigate the inner/outer core and the inner/outer mantle but I just want her to remember the main parts of the layers.

Here is her finished project. She labeled each layer. We used play dough from the Dollar Store so we will keep the model out for display for a while. She was happy about that. We didn't finish the week out - we have one more lesson for Week 5 - layers of the atmosphere. Just not enough time in the week :( J still asks for Science so she is truly liking this program. I like that it is simple enough and doesn't require a ton of prep work (unless you want). Her notebook is coming together as well. I know she will love the finished product.

Again, if you would like the notebook pages that I created, please contact me and I will send them. Have a great weekend. See you soon.

Links

The Chaos and Clutter - has the craft idea of using play dough to create the layers of the earth.

Deceptively Educational - has the idea of the layers of the earth 3-D model.