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Wednesday, July 25, 2012

What Can Kids Learn from Making a Terrarium?


We've all seen the "make a terrarium with your kids" articles but Carmen at Off the Grid News makes a valuable point about the teachable moments you can share with your kids during the process:

As for science, a terrarium is a great way to learn about the water cycle. Water on the earth cycles through several different states from ground and surface water to clouds, to rain, and back again to the ground. It evaporates from the earth to become a vapor in the atmosphere. There, water condenses to form the water droplets that make up clouds. When they get large enough, the droplets fall back to the earth as precipitation, and the cycle begins again. In a terrarium, you get to see this process in miniature. You need only add water to it once a month because within the container, the water will evaporate, condense, and precipitate, just as it does in the earth at large.

1 comment:

  1. Believe me, this is the first time I have heard the name "terrarium," but now I have enough information about it. However, I even wish to do more research on it, but I do not have enough time because I have to find the best assignment writing services UK for my sister because she needs it very urgently.

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