Check out all the fun pictures from Monday's Closing Party! Our fledgling scientists conducted experiments on the five senses: sight, smell, touch, taste, and hearing.
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| In this hearing game, one kid (in the center of the circle) was dubbed "the listener". He had to close his eyes and then identify which friend in the circle was clapping. After he identified a few, he had to repeat the experiment with one ear covered. Without the use of both ears to hear, it was much tougher to identify the direction the clapping was coming from. We learned that our ears work in tandem. |
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| Holding our nose while tasting dried fruit to see how how sense of taste and smell work together (or in this case, don't work together!) to create what we call "flavor". |
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| Crafting paper thaumatropes. |
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| Crafting paper thaumatropes. |
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| The thaumatropes feature a bird on one disc and a birdcage on the opposite. When we spin the discs, our eyes are tricked into seeing an optical illusion: the bird is suddenly in the cage! |
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| We practicing throwing and catching with our eyes open, and then with one eye closed. Guess what? Our depth perception was affected and we missed more tosses with one eye shut! |
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| Kids tried to identity objects in the drawstring bag by touch only and no visual. |
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Shaen
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