My 10-year-old daughter is involved in this GATE (Gifted and Talented Education) after-school program over the next few weeks. Every Tuesday afternoon they meet and do some sort of mad-cap science experimentation. The first week she needed an empty plastic container with a lid and three rocks for the class. So we tracked that down and she trucked it off to school to create crystals with some sort of salt and ammonia mixture. I'm not sure where the rocks came into play.
The next week (last Tuesday) they needed balloons and baking soda to make the balloons blow themselves up. They also learned how to make a homemade volcano explode. So all the kids went home ready to blow stuff up. Yikes.
Next week she needs another empty plastic container with a lid, an empty water bottle and a chicken bone - preferably wing or thigh. So now I'm wondering what kind of voodoo experimentation these kids will be doing Tuesday. Regardless, I stripped down a chicken bone for her, boiled it clean and have it ready for next week's class. At least she didn't ask for a rag doll and some pins.
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