Fun Summer Activities

draw and make mandalas

What Is Bioluminescence?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioluminescence

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/11-cool-things-you-never-knew-about-fireflies/

Fascinating Facts About Fireflies

  • Fireflies use light to signal to each other
  • Firefly lights are the most efficient lights in the world; in a standard lightbulb, only 10% is light and the rest is given off as heat
  • Different species have different ‘blink rates’ so they light up in different patterns
  • Some firefly eggs actually glow
  • Fireflies produce light using a chemical called luciferase or luciferin which is useful in biomedical research
  • Blue ghost fireflies are so named because they glow with an eerie blue or green light.

Kindness Rocks-Painting pebbles

Pressing flowers

a big book and some blotting paper.

Just find some pretty flowers in the garden, lay them on a sheet of blotting paper, put another sheet of blotting paper down on top and press them under a nice big heavy book.

After a few days you’ll have some great dried flowers to stick on cards.

pavement chalk

make a sundial

Life Cycle Of A Butterfly

draw butterflies

https://www.monarchwatch.org/

face painting

find out

who the third man on the moon?

Did you know that Dick Whittington really was the medieval Mayor of London?

Why was a pigeon a hero to the American army?

What’s the difference between a dolmen and a barrow?

Who were the Wu, Wei and Shu Han?

Was Napoleon really small?

Who said ‘Pardon me, sir, I didn’t mean to’ just before they were executed?

When was the oldest known shark attack? 

podcasts

Not Just the Tudors

https://embed.acast.com/$/b0ed85cc-f4ed-49e9-b860-0ba48481ae25/tudor-queens-the-power-of-jewellery

https://embed.acast.com/$/b0ed85cc-f4ed-49e9-b860-0ba48481ae25/francis-bacon-edward-coke-elizabethan-rivals

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