This weekend we dissected a sheep’s brain. Dissection is a great way to encourage interest about anatomy and to learn a little more about yourself. We got our specimen’s from Home Science Tools for those interested in trying dissection for themselves. When...
This past weekend was Johnny Appleseed’s birthday, so we’ve been reading about apples all month. We made a fun project with apples this week too. We created apple dolls, from the book The Apple Doll by Elisa Kleven. This is the story of a girl who is...
Get ready for more amazing pictures from space. The James Webb telescope will launch this December. This telescope was first conceived three decades ago. It was conceived as a telescope to capture light from the first galaxies, but now scientists are trying for more....
Happy Fall! To celebrate the changing of the leaves, we have been making leaf rubbings all week. It’s fun to place a leaf under a sheet of paper and rub over it with a crayon to see the texture of the leaf. This gives you a great way to remember your leaf and...
We like to do activities each weekend at Imagine That. We’ve played with pulleys, vacuums, painted and built marshmallow launchers all in the past month. Each Sunday we also play with slime. This weekend was no different. We’ve been talking about...
For Labor Day this year, we here at Vacaville’s Imagine That thought it would be fun to explore the scientific meaning of work and how simple machines help get work done. In physics, work happens when an effort or force is used to move a mass over a distance. So...
There have been lots of scientific investigations this summer, and not just at our summer camps. Several interesting pieces of news have recently come to light. A giant tortoise was filmed hunting and chasing baby birds. Most don’t think of tortoises as...
This week, we held our first STEAM storytime. We are offering storytimes Tuesday and Wednesday mornings at 11. Each storytime will have a welcoming song, a story, a song or movement tie-in and a science or art themed activity. This month we are reading the...
Don’t forget the Perseid Meteor Shower, one of the best meteor showers of the year peaks this week. Although it starts in late July and will continue through mid-August, tonight and early tomorrow morning are some of the best times for viewing. The moon...
We had a great week learning about the science of superheroes. We started out learning about how animals see the world and making a picture to compare what humans see to the vision of animals. Did you know that while dogs see less colors than we do, birds can see a...
