This week I am going to science explorers camp at a a school near my house. There is two divisions, “take a dive” and “junior explorers”. Take a dive is for older kids, that is what I am in. My sister aka Blogging Girl is afraid of anything medical or inside of bodies so she is in the other camp. On Monday, we did a dissection of a squid. There was 4 big squids and a bunch of smaller squids. Me and my partner got to dissect our very own big squid. I took out the heart and the stomach. My partner took out the gills and part of the cartilage. Did you know that squids have a beak? I took out half of it and got to take it home. I also got to take home half of the cartilage and one of the squids tentacles that I cut off myself. I wanted to take home the heart but my counselor said no. On tuesday we saw if an egg floats in salt water or in freash water. It does not float in fresh water unless you crack the egg. With the salt water it did float when our camp counselor added enough salt (enough salt is about half of a salt container.) Then we made fish prints. This is when you take dead fsh and then you paint it with any color and then the counselor takes your shirt and you open the fins and push it down on the shirt. I got two fish prints. Yesterday, we met a second camp counselor and we made boats out of clay and tin foil. I made three, two out of tin foil. We saw how many pennies could float on it. Mine was 36 pennies but it touched the bottom. Today, was an experiment day. First we did an experiment with 4 cups. They were sea shells, craked egg with no yolk, a tums pill (2), and a piece of chalk (2), and a cup of water, and a cup of vinegar. What you do is put some water and cover all the things and see what happens after 5 minutes. Then pour the water out of the cup and take out the tums and chalk, sea shell, and egg shell and put it on a napkin. Then you get the cups again and put it all back in and see what happens. We did an another expirement with sand, magic sand and liquids.
Tomorrow is the big shark day. We are doing a shark disection. Check back soon for the details about the shark disection.
We love camp and sharks and the sea