Eco Academy - Biomes

Today in our outdoor classroom, we learned about biomes and made our own.

 

 Here is Scout, putting hers together.

 

 For each class, the teachers put together a power point presentation and teach us about the topic.  Then, for the second half of class, we experience it.  This time, we made the cryosphere with a 2 liter bottle and some smoke and warm water. 

After putting the lid on, squeeze.

When you let go, the bottle gets very "smokey" inside. 

Congratulations!  You have just made a cloud! 

Now squeeze the bottle again.  This creates high pressure and the cloud immidiately disappears. 

Scout learned how storms are created from low and high pressure systems.  How's that for textbook!
She is learning so fast and remembering so much because she is EXPERIENCING it!!