Get yourself and old percolator coffee pot with the glass bubble up top, a flat bottom, and a gas or electric burner. Great way to teach attention to detail, Bernoulli's principal of fluid motion, Boyle's Laws of pressure-temperature-volume transformations, and generally how to handle things that are hot safely. Before I was allowed to "assist" in the reloading room I had to demonstrate I was both attentive and responsible enough by learning how to make a "decent pot of coffee." Had to make sure it didn't burn, under-steep, over-steep, or come to a rolling boil. It's not as easy as it sounds.Absolutely!!! He is the smartest one of my bunch. Teaching him units of weights and measurement and science. Absolutely priceless and will serve him well in the future.
Tough being a parent these days. Not like when my generation was in school. We'd go outside for recess and at least once a week take range practice with some very worn out Stevens single-shot bolt action rifles. The school provided Remington .22Shorts and two targets. We also learned to shoot a bow and tie knots. That was then, this is now. (can't even talk about what they teach kids to do in elementary school).That's awesome!
Unfortunately for our kids with contemporary polarized politics combined with scary- effective facial recognition, sorry to say it might not be a good idea posting pics online. They'll never go away. My son school found he had a NRA card in his desk and his vindictive toward him teacher called the cops and before the principal got involved (who shut all this down and was horrified for liability) that teacher made up enough stories to the police they tried to tell me I had to let them search my house.
Get yourself and old percolator coffee pot with the glass bubble up top, a flat bottom, and a gas or electric burner. Great way to teach attention to detail, Bernoulli's principal of fluid motion, Boyle's Laws of pressure-temperature-volume transformations, and generally how to handle things that are hot safely. Before I was allowed to "assist" in the reloading room I had to demonstrate I was both attentive and responsible enough by learning how to make a "decent pot of coffee." Had to make sure it didn't burn, under-steep, over-steep, or come to a rolling boil. It's not as easy as it sounds.
Learning how a column of heated water would raise itself through the stem of a percolator helped explain a lot about how expanding gas in a chamber pushes a bullet down the barrel.