{"id":1078,"date":"2008-02-16T09:40:03","date_gmt":"2008-02-16T16:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/?p=1078"},"modified":"2009-10-31T09:50:47","modified_gmt":"2009-10-31T16:50:47","slug":"hot-rocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/?p=1078","title":{"rendered":"Hot Rocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 11pt;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: x-small;\">A new way to teach &#8220;hot&#8221; and &#8220;cold.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS;\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0several smooth stones<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0old crayons<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0ice cubes<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0newspaper<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0box<\/p>\n<p>Take your child outside and find a few rocks. Point out their various shapes and sizes. Help your child select 7 or 8 smooth rocks about the size of your fist and bring them into the house.\u00c2\u00a0Set aside three of the rocks. Put the remainder on a cookie sheet and heat at 250 degrees for about 10 minutes. The rocks should be noticeably warm, but not hot enough to burn your child.\u00c2\u00a0Spread newspaper on the floor or on a table and place the heated rocks on top. Discuss why the rocks feel warm as your child touches them.\u00c2\u00a0Select one warm rock and let your child rub an ice cube over it. Talk about what happens as the ice melts. Ask your child to tell you where the water is coming from. Rub an ice cube over an unheated rock and observe what happens. Discuss the differences between the rocks with your child.\u00c2\u00a0Choose another warm rock and ask your child to scribble on it with some old crayons. Your child will enjoy watching the crayons drip onto the paper as she draws. Look at the crayon drippings on the paper and talk about the shapes they make. Point out how new colors are created when several crayons melt together. Then your child can draw on an unheated rock and see how the crayon remains solid.\u00c2\u00a0Place several rocks in a box. Have your child reach in and identify the heated ones just by touching them.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0builds observation skills<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0teaches science concept of changing states of matter\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0builds awareness of cause and effect <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0 A new way to teach &#8220;hot&#8221; and &#8220;cold.&#8221; \u00c2\u00a0 \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0several smooth stones \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0old crayons \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0ice cubes \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0newspaper \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0box Take your child outside and find a few rocks. Point out their various shapes and sizes. Help your child select 7 or 8 smooth rocks about the size of your fist and bring them into the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,22,16,15,9,44],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1079,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078\/revisions\/1079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}