One of our educational goals for Patience this year was to try to have a little fun w/science, while simultaneously teaching her to use the basic tools of science, from a ruler to a balance to a microscope to an alcohol burner. Today, we purposed to learn how to use the alcohol burner (aka the long-awaited "Bunsen Burner" lab). So far, what we've really learned is how to light a match. No joke. And what a critical and fundamental life skill. Mission accomplished! Plus, she's learned how to boil water using scientific aparati.... probably a good thing to know, someday, just in case, or at least to be able to keep up with her end of the conversation at the proverbial cocktail parties she'll someday attend.
Now on to the burning salts and looking at them through a spectroscope. Fun!
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