Sense-ational Science Day 2

After Gratitude Circle, we played “Zombie Name Game” and  then continued our exploration of sound and the sense of hearing with 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 a work of abstract painting. 

Then 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). 

After snack, playwriting and obstacle course we continued exploring sight with 3 stations. One station focused on finding your blind spot and dominant eye, another was peripheral vision and the third was an experiment with bending light with lasers and acrylic shapes to demonstrate how our eye lens bends light for our eye to focus properly. 

Then we went to the creek. Today was a heat advisory so we spent an extra 20 minutes cooling off at the creek. Lastly, some campers did volleyball 4 square or built with tubes and connectors during dismissal.