Weekend Experiments

The plan

This is the plan I use for my kids. Steal what helps, ignore what doesn't.

I'm building a ~30-Saturday path so sessions hang on real concepts — not random cute activities. Each unit is five weeks. We're filling week-by-week as we run them at home; experiments on the site map here when that's useful.

Year-one spine

Draft units — experiments listed in the order I'd run them. Empty slots = still filling.

  1. 1. Matter & mess

    Weeks 1–5

    Sink/float, mix, goo, ice, density

  2. 2. Forces & motion

    Weeks 6–10

    Push/pull, ramps, roll, bounce

  3. 3. Water & weather

    Weeks 11–15

    Flow, absorb, wind, evaporate

  4. 4. Light & sound

    Weeks 16–20

    Shadows, mirrors, loud/quiet, vibrate

    No sessions mapped yet — filling soon.

  5. 5. Living things

    Weeks 21–25

    Seeds, bugs, bodies, habitats

    No sessions mapped yet — filling soon.

  6. 6. Build & invent

    Weeks 26–30

    Tools, structures, simple machines, “fix it”

    No sessions mapped yet — filling soon.

More context on why this exists at all: About. Or jump to Experiments.