Today, in between raindrops, the Young Naturalists learned about the properties of water in an activity called "Water Olympics". Campers traveled among seven stations to discover what water can do.
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| In this station, campers guessed how many droplets of water could fit on a penny, then added drop after drop until it spilled over. |
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| At this station, campers squeezed a seltzer bottle full of water with a dropper inside. When they squeezed, the dropper went down. When they let go, the dropper went back up again. Why did it do that?? |
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At the "Water Maze" station, campers put a droplet of water onto the start end of the maze, and moved their maze all around to get it to the finish line.
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| At the boat-building station, campers made "boats" out of tinfoil with the goal of holding as many pennies as possible before the boat sank. The record was 103 pennies! |
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| Each camper had a clipboard to record their findings! |
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| At the "Magic Toothpick" station, campers added water to this toothpick arrangement. When they added water, a new shape appeared - ask your camper what it was! |
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| At "Fold and Float" campers recorded how many times you could fold a piece of tinfoil until it sank, when placed on top of a tray of water. |
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