Science Friday

Fridays are fun school days here at the SILL Academy. After Noah's violin lesson, we head home to do Science. Since our good friends are in town, the enrollment in Science Friday at SILL Academy has doubled - without any marketing efforts at all; a business wonder worthy of pondering someplace else on the web.
This Friday, the topics were mass, volume, and density. We had fun weighing, measuring and eating various materials as we concluded that mass and volume are not synonymous.  The first impression that a ton of cotton balls weighs less than a ton of steel was quickly debunked. An entire cup of popcorn barely register on the kitchen scale, whereas a cup of marbles have significant mass.
Having mastered these concepts, it was time for some density testing. Various liquids were poured into containers and the results were interesting not to mentioned fun to peer through! However interesting the liquids, no amount of enticement could get anyone to drink it, which was good as it contained soaps!