E is for Earth Science

Earth Science is a broad topic that encompasses many different areas of study. We chose to focus on caves and volcanoes for the week.

Making the Earth by squirting blue and green colored water onto a coffee filter

Exploring different materials to make the letter E

Lily's Cave Animals book

Painting lava coming out of the volcano

This experiment was supposed to show how magma comes up through the Earth by dropping a small jar of red hot water into a pitcher of clear cool water. The red water dispersed too quickly though, and I think that this would have worked better with red oil dropped into clear water.

This video shows our volcano experiment. It was simple, but Lily really enjoyed it - so much so that we had to do it a few times!