This week we are starting our Nature Kids Summer School Lessons. This is a 4 week lesson plan that will fill the time period between Lithia and Lughnasdad. This year we will be focusing on each of the elements: earth, air, fire, and water. Each lesson plan for the week will have: lesson about the element, vocabulary words, quiz, coloring pages, experiments, spell work with corresponding Deity work, guided meditations, and a yoga sequence that corresponds to the chakra that relates to the element. Please check back every week to follow along. This week we are going to be learning about the element Fire. We are are going to be learning about the scientific aspects of this element first, later we will be learning about the magical aspects. The element fire is all about the actual different types of fire that is on planet Earth. The ocean is made up of multiple layers: crust, mantle and the core. Humans have been using fire for over a million year in not just cooking food, but for magick as well. Imagine if you will how magical it would be for our ancestors to smash two rocks together then a spark of fire emerges. They saw the power in it and knew that it was a product of the Divine. From that point people would gather around fire and speak to the Deities to ask them to help and heal them. Our ancestor did not look at the science behind this magick. Fire is the chemical process of combustion. The point in the combustion reaction is called the ignition point. This is when flames are produced. The flame is the visible portion of the fire. Flames are primarily made up of carbon dioxide, water vapor, oxygen and nitrogen. A flame is a mixture of reacting gases and solids emitting visible, infrared, and sometimes ultraviolet light. The glow of a flame is complex. The light of the flame is actually electromagnetic radiation that we are seeing. The color intensity depends on temperature. Where the fire flame is white at the base of the fire which is the hottest color possible for organic material. The color of the flame and the fire's intensity will be different. These colors are as distinctive to each element as fingerprints are to people. Have you ever looked at flames and wondered why they produce different colors as they burn? Color can reveal a lot about the temperature as well as the material that is burning “Love, like fire, goes out without fuel.”
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As a mom of three boys who go to public school I started to notice that some things were not being taught in detail so I decided to create lessons for them. Many of these lessons cover science, history and of information about Paganism. I share crafts for the all different holidays and cultures as ways that they can learn and have fun at the same time.
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