Our Everyday World
With a 10 min hunt around your house
or school, you can find lots of interesting thing that will interest kids.
Many items can be used to teach kids how familiar objects work. For example,
by looking at a newspaper or a magazine, they can see that color photographs,
which look homogenous by eye, are actually made of small dots (4 types of
colored dots (CMYK printing)). It is also interesting to compare different
types of papers (magazine, newspaper, hand made paper, toilet paper,). Fabrics
are also interesting to compare. One of my favorite objects is Velcro, which
is familiar to all kids. Under the microscope, they can deduce how Velcro
works- small hooks on one side engaging in a jungle of fibers on the other.
Recommendations- for most items below, have kids start at 10x and then switch to 60x with top illumination.
