- a piece of plywood;
- two nails;
- an orange;
- a hanger;
- a marshmallow, tinted blue; and
- a miniature marshmallow.
Update: Wow! Wasn't that beautiful? We made it to totality, then put the Kid to bed almost immediately. I felt like we should have done something, sacrificed a goat or defiled a virgin maybe, under that red moon.
We decided not to use a blue marshmallow for Earth. We opted for a small red potato, painted blue and green using tempera.
11 comments:
Sounds like a little sun/earth/moon model to me. Nice. Never too early to do Science. Have fun. Two hours is a little optimistic. More like 20 min.
Been there; done that.
Well, the eclipse lasts longer than 20 minutes. And not a lot of people can say been there, done that when it comes to explaining the solar system during a total lunar eclipse...
Dear lord...this sounds interesting...How does the marshmellows factor in?
Hey! I guessed right, we're going to have an eclipse.
Sounds like a cool model, my crew will have to settle with drawings.
Anonymous, when children are involved it's vital to overestimate the time you will spend doing science exploration. Have fun Angry Family!
Lunar eclipse model!
That was good. It was too bloody cold here, though I could see it from the front porch. Then I went to sleep. No handy virgin around here, either.
Everyone sing - Blue moon marshmallow
Stay on groovin' safari,
Tor
The eqclipse was beautiful. I watched it to totality. There are some neat pictures in the on line Seattle Post Intelligencer as well.
I am lucky enough to live in a rural area with little ambient light, since it was colder than a **** *** that night and I kept having to go back inside.
worth it, though.
Geography wasn't in our favor this time, but we did get to see some of it, at least. Gotta go better equipped next time, weather and topography-wise.
Still, way cool.
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