Ever Heard of a Pizzly Bear?

We learned this week in science that the offspring of a grizzly bear and polar bear is a pizzly bear. Which means there is one somewhere. Like the wholphin in Hawaii. And there is a zedonk which is the baby of a donkey and zebra.

What this means is that animals of the same kind can mate and produce babies. Our Apologia Zoology book teaches us that Noah took 2 or 7 pairs of each kind of animal onto the Ark. Not every species of feline or canine and other genus that we know and love. Natural selection made all the species we see now from those kinds of animals on the Ark. Awesome. I love it.

Our temperature experiment this week

Did you know polar bears have black skin? Their fur is clear.

We learned that dark colors absorb more heat than light colors.

1. Two plastic bags: black and white.

2. Reading the experiment to Tori and Katie so that they understand what we’re doing.

3. Two thermometers to read temperature.

4. Placing thermometers under bags and securing bags with rocks so they don’t blow away.

5. Waiting. Do you hear the Jeopardy theme too?

6. The next morning (we wanted to see the high and low temps) we checked our bags and the black bag had a high of 47 degrees and the white bag had a high temp of 45 degrees. Celsius.

So, after looking up the temp chart on the ‘Net, that means the black bag got really hot, lol. Almost 117 degrees.

Probably not the most accurate experiment. It was supposed to be done on a sidewalk. I thought there would be a bigger temperature difference.

But the girls loved it and told Dad all about it, so it was worth it, eh?