Seabury Navigators: Westward Ho! Featuring the Science of STREAM

SCIENCE Technology Reading Engineering Art Math!

As we integrate our study of Westward Expansion

across the curriculum,

all these subject areas are included.

SCIENCE:

Just as the early pioneers needed to be able to take care of their medical needs, to cook and bake, to recognize plants and animals, to forecast the weather, and to understand other scientific things, the Seabury first through fourth grade wagon groups are learning similar information about science.

Here are a few of our scientific scenarios:

What do you do when a person gets bit by a rattlesnake?

This was a homework assignment one night. It's a good thing at least one person from each group came back with an answer or someone might have lost an arm or a leg!!

Most came up with this answer:

If someone got bitten by a poisonous snake, another pioneer would take a knife and cut an "x" at the bite location. They would then suck out the blood and hopefully the poison. Sometimes this worked and sometimes this didn't.

"Is that a real rattlesnake skin?"

"Can I touch it!?"

"Dad, look at the diamonds on its back!"

How do you make butter?

Well, you need a cow, a strainer, a skimmer, and a butter churn.

Click here to watch a video of an early American dairy.

We used heavy cream, glass jars, and marbles.

Shake, shake, shake!

In about 20 minutes (and lots of singing),
something started to happen.

A ball was forming in the jar!

Could it be....butter!?

Woooooow!!

It is, it is!

It's yellow!

The science of making butter:

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To make butter, the cream is agitated (stirred up) so that the fat molecules get shaken out of position and clump together. Eventually, after enough agitation, the fat molecules clump so much that butter forms.