A few weeks ago, a teacher at work gave me a solar energy activity pack. I brought it home and put it on the table.
Where it sat.
One afternoon, Jason saw the box and was immediately intriguged because of the warning label he saw on the side. (Leave it to my kid to be drawn to a warning label instead of seeing it as, you know, a sign of DANGER.) I told him it was a science experiment and that we couldn't do it then. It was marked for kids 8 or older, so I was actually considering putting it up for a while before we tried it.
He wasn't happy of course, because he wanted to see what it was right then. And then he asked me just about every. single. day. since. then. if we could open the box.
Finally, I decided what the heck so I said yes. I figured the worst that could happen was that he'd get bored quickly and lose interest. Best case scenario was he'd learn a little about solar energy.
He was over the moon!
He had so much fun watching what happened when we did different things. He could hardly wait to tell daddy all about when he got home, too.
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The box had a solar panel, the connection cables, and a few dodads to hook to it. I'll let Jason tell you the rest. :-)
(Jack helped us in our experimentation. You'll see he was orally testing to see if plastic containers also conducted solar energy. He was sad to find the answer was no. lol)
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