Today was the annual Science Palooza at the rec center. We love the Science Palooza! The city always does such a good putting together interesting science related activities. This year we learned about wild animals in our area, like cougars, moose, and bear, took apart worms to see smaller worms inside them (so gross!), constructed structures with spaghetti and gumdrops, saw our bodies on infrared cameras, learned about Mary Anning who discovered the ichthyosaurus (I read a book about her), enjoyed "color world," found out that Nikola Tesla was a brilliant though very quirky inventor, and learned that in order to burn off the calories in one M&M you would need to run the length of a football field. (I found this statistic so incredibly depressing that I looked it up when we got home and discovered they lied. It only takes 8 seconds of running to burn off the three calories in a plain milk chocolate M&M, and I sure can't cover a whole football field in eight seconds. I'm going to go eat an M&M. Or six.)
Hooray for another year of scientific excitement!
Kent and Brandt looking HOT!
This was the station where we learned all about the native wildlife.
The kids tried to toss a canning ring onto antlers.
Brandt ringed one his first toss!
Gumdrop construction
The kids are breaking apart a small worm so the smaller worms inside can be seen under a microscope.
It was cool.
Cool, but gross.
Sleuth dress-up
He was having more fun than this picture depicts.
Giant marker coloring
Hula hooping
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