I love homeschooling mostly because of those "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie" moments.
Yesterday we had a lesson on scientists and inventors of the past and their contributions to physical science...Isaac Newton, Orville and Wilbur Wright, Otto Lilienthal, Robbert Goddard, Neil Armstrong.
Which lead to us YouTube-ing footage of Armstrong's first steps on the moon.
Which lead to us finding videos of astronauts playing around in weightlessness. Which prompted great questions such as "If there is no gravity, how do you go to the bathroom?" And "Why do they have to workout while in zero-gravity for an extended period of time?"
Which lead us to videos of pilots in a zero-gravity plane popping water balloons.
Which lead to conversations of how an airplane can simulate the weightlessness of outer space by flying in a parabola.
Which lead my son to dig out a 'Magic of Flight' dvd that was purchased years ago at a Pensacola museum of aviation.
Which lead to discussions of how a planes wing is modeled after a birds wing and how wind speed differences create lift.
Those are the moments when I sit back and think, if this took place in a classroom, the lesson would have ended with Newton, the Wright Brothers, and Armstrong.
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