The Clubhouse is the Behavioral Intervention Association's (http://www.bia4autism.org) after-school program. Once a week, children between the ages of 5 and 12, who have communication and social challenges, meet and engage in fun activities to practice different social skills. The Explorers focus on skills such as staying with the group, greetings, turn taking, participating independently in activities, and brief exchanges with peers. The Adventurers focus on skills such as initiating and maintaining conversations, perspective taking, and negotiating with peers.

BIA Clubhouse: Where Friendship Rules

Thursday, November 10, 2011

The Adventurers: From Fossils to Dinosaurs (From Magnets to Magic Mixtures)


Science Project “Fossils” : We created fossils using coffee grounds, coffee, flour, and salt (see recipe). We absolutely loved it and did a fantastic job working together.

Ingredients / Materials:

1 cup of used coffee grounds
1/2 cup of cold coffee
1 cup of flour
1/2 cup of salt
Wax paper
Mixing bowl
Some small objects to make impressions in the dough
Empty plastic glasses

 




  
How to make the fossils:
  • Stir together the coffee grounds, cold coffee, flour, and salt until well mixed. If dough is too moist, add flour.
  • Knead the dough together and then flatten it out onto the waxed paper. 
  • Use the plastic glasses to cut out circles out of the dough or use your hands to make slabs large enough to fit your "fossil" objects.
  • Press your objects firmly into the dough. When you take the object out, you have your "fossil".  
  • Let the fossils dry overnight. 

Dino Hunt! We looked for dinosaur pieces that were hidden outside. The puzzle pieces had different colored dots on the back so after we had found all the pieces we had to sort them. We then split up into three teams. The goal was to work together and to put the puzzle pieces together to create the dinosaurs.

















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