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		<title>Fizzy Water Fun</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tamsyn Spackman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 May 2013 20:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Did you know you can make your own carbonated water without dry ice?&#160; It&#8217;s so easy.&#160; All you have to do is mix water, juice, or any other drink, and add equal portions of baking soda and citric acid.&#160; We mixed it with Tang a few months ago and it was tasty.&#160; It changes the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Ride on the Magic School Bus</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tamsyn Spackman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 14:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[My kids are CRAZY about this show.&#160; We bought the complete series for Christmas, and bar none, it was their favorite item.&#160; They prefer this show over any of our Disney movies.&#160; And because I like it too, I let them watch it.&#160; Well, it&#8217;s permeated our family life. How do I know? My two-year-old [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Electric Universe (or Plasma Cosmology)</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tamsyn Spackman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 21:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Warning:&#160; Contents of this post challenge mainstream science, and the ideas are really “out there”.&#160;&#160; A paradigm shift in how you view the universe may result if, like me, you believe them.&#160; I share this on my blog because it may be a scientific theory of interest.&#160; It is what I plan on teaching my [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Dissecting a Diaper</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tamsyn Spackman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 17:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Yesterday my children and I dissected a diaper.&#160; After we opened the diaper and pulled out the cotton, I showed my children how the outer layer is waterproof by pouring tap water into it.&#160; Then I remembered that I have a blog, and pulled out my camera&#8230; Let&#8217;s dissect a diaper.&#160; First we cut open [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Celery Experiment</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tamsyn Spackman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2011 16:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[You have seen this experiment before:&#160; Place celery in colored water to see how celery draws water from its bass to the roots.&#160; I have been wanting to do this with my children for some time, but it seems like we always eat the celery before we get around to doing it.&#160; Last time I [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Color mixing experiment</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tamsyn Spackman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 16:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[We did an experiment yesterday that was inspired by The Wonder Years.&#160; The ingredients are simple:&#160; Milk (2% or Whole), soap, and food coloring.&#160; Pour the milk into a bowl and add food coloring. Then dip a cotton swap in the soap and dip it into the milk to see what happens.&#160; There are YouTube [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Quick-growing crystals</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tamsyn Spackman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Feb 2011 14:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I give full credit for this experiment to Home Science Tools.&#160; Click their link to see the science behind the experiment, and for more crystal-growing ideas. For this experiment we needed: ·&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; 1/2 cup Epsom salts ·&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; Food coloring ·&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; 1/2 cup hot tap water ·&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; A refrigerator Mix the Epsom salts with hot tap [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Mommy, what happens to fish in the winter?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tamsyn Spackman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2011 16:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Well, it&#8217;s a good thing that ice floats, or they would all be dead.&#160; Luckily, what happens is that they just keep swimming and and living during the winter as they do in the summer, but the lake freezes on top.&#160; Yesterday we illustrated this with a tasty treat, albeit with foods containing food coloring [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Snow density</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tamsyn Spackman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2011 15:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Here is a simple experiment that we adapted for our preschooler.&#160; When we had a blizzard last December, in addition to making snow cones with juice concentrate, we filled our graded measuring cup so that there was about 2 cups of unpacked snow.&#160; We talked about how snow is made of water, and that when [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Volcanoes</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tamsyn Spackman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jan 2011 23:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Ah yes, the classic science experiment of pouring vinegar over baking soda for a chemical reaction. This is one of my children&#8217;s favorite activities to do. I have a pie tin set aside to catch the results, and a baby bottle that we use as a volcano.The volcano was actually a tool that I used [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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