Sense-ational Science Day 2

After Gratitude Circle, we continued our exploration of sound and the sense of hearing. For the morning game we played a sound relay. Each team was given 3 cans that had a mystery object in it and made a unique sound. They had to run around and find the matching sound cans. Then in teams they played one last game for the sense of hearing called “Animal Call” (each team comes up with a unique call and they have to find everyone on their team by sense of hearing only). 

Next they made synesthesia art. Synesthesia is when your brain routes sensory information through multiple unrelated senses, causing you to experience more than one sense simultaneously. A common example is when letters or numbers are seen in specific colors. Another example is chromesthesia, where certain sounds trigger the experience of colors. So the explorers choose 3-5 sounds to illustrate as colors and shapes in an abstract painting. 

After snack, playwriting and obstacle course we moved into the sense of seeing.  We discussed how our eyes work and how our eyesight differs from some animals (like deer, flies and bees to name a few). We talked about how some snakes (boas, pit vipers and pythons) use infrared to see their prey and we played “Snake Eyes” (½ hid paper mice in the woods which the other ½ had to use their “infrared vision” to find). Then we went to the creek.

Lastly, some campers did archery, while others played soccer or baseball before dismissal.