The M.O.S.H.

The last three weeks of school were extremely busy!!! Between Jesse's class, Trey's class, & my 4th grade class I went on 4 field trips, attended Muffins with Mommy, preschool graduation, three end of school parties, and two honor's programs! Whew! And the craziness began on April 28th when we took the 4th and 5th grade to the Museum of Science and History in Jacksonville. We had a blast and I'm hoping to take Trey back sometime this summer.

The first floor exhibit was all about the human body. It included several "machines" that the students could manipulate and help them to "see" how the human body works.

There were also lots of real human organs in jars!

And a small aquarium.

As well as whale skeletons & a very cool dinosaur!

The 4th & 5th grade entering the human body through the mouth.

Outside the M.O.S.H. at the park where we enjoyed lunch.

The M.O.S.H. exhibits were very cool, as was the planetarium. However, the BEST part of our trip was the What's the Matter? science show! The scientist explored the 4 states of matter with the students and gave every one of them the chance to be involved. He used liquid nitrogen in many of his experiments & boy do I wish I could use it in my classroom!

In this experiment, he blew up several balloons and tied them off. He then put them in liquid nitrogen, which made the molecules of air contract until the balloons "looked" deflated. However, once he took them out of the liquid nitrogen & they began to warm up, they expanded again!



And here is our grand finale! Our scientist poured boiling liquid into the liquid nitrogen to produce a thunderstorm complete with thunder in the classroom. The video does not do it justice! The thunder does not come through as loud and booming as it was in person, and you can't see the rain drops. It was very, very cool!