A Science Experiment

Our boy is closing out second grade this week. He has done well with his schooling, Wife Klem and I are proud parents. A high note was when he attained the Star Reader Award! That entailed the reading of books and taking tests to show his level of reading comprehension.

Wife Klem had dangled an incentive where if he earned the Star Reader Award we would furnish him with a $50 Borders gift card. Last weekend we went to the book store to use up the card.

The boy maximized his $50 credit by adding in a 20% discount that Wife Klem found online! He bought seven books including a few graphic novels and The Book of Totally Irresponsible Science - 64 Daring Experiments for Young Scientists by Sean Connolly.

The Experiments book is pretty cool. Most of the experiments are not very time consuming and typically only require common household items. We liked the Overcoming Gravity experiment on page 188.


Things needed:
drinking glass
water
postcard
towel (in case experiment’s results are flawed)


Method:
1) Fill glass 3/4 with water
2) Place card, glossy side, completely over mouth of glass (make sure there’s no gap)
3) Press the card to the rim, turn over the glass
4) Once the glass is upside down, remove the hand from the card
5) The card should remain attached and no water leaks out! [Note: Don’t wait too long. If the postcard gets soggy, the experiment will come to an abrupt end.]


[Video removed by Klem on 7/26/2010.]


-klem