So, volcanoes are always a topic of interest around here, probably stemming from the time we spent living on the side of one.\u00a0 Not that any of our children are old enough to remember that time, but they see pictures, hear stories, and every so often, GeekBoy starts reading books about volcanoes.\u00a0 So today, after reading through a few library books about volcanoes, we built our own Baking Soda Volcano.<\/p>\n
We used the directions found at About.com<\/a>.\u00a0 GeekBoy helped mix the salt dough for the cone, but he chickened out of shaping it once he discovered how sticky salt dough is.\u00a0 But he was right there adding the baking soda and vinegar.\u00a0 It was fun!<\/p>\n [youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cXG-7j4V3OU[\/youtube] Then our movie from Netflix arrived, as if on cue, and we watched Pompeii:\u00a0 The Last Day<\/a>.\u00a0 Then GeekBoy closed off the day by building different volcanoes online at Discovery’s Virtual Volcano<\/a> game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So, volcanoes are always a topic of interest around here, probably stemming from the time we spent living on the side of one.\u00a0 Not that any of our children are …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,26,14,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-capt740","category-science","category-video"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n*The video is a stop motion type thing, made with a series of high-speed continuous shot photos.\u00a0 Sound effects came from Simplythebest.net.<\/p>\n