For my first grader’s science this year, I created a unit study that goes along with the Magic School Bus videos. Her current topic is on the rainforest. After my daughter watched a Magic School Bus show about the rainforest, we read a book about rainforests together. My kid likes…
I stumbled across a website when I was putting together my son’s physics study, but I didn’t realize how amazing this website was until my son sat down to do the Crash Science Investigation activity. That day he spent about 3 hours analyzing a crash scene. He had to do…
This school year I had planned to use Ellen McHenry’s Cells with my highly creative 10 year old visual-spatial learner. We had both really enjoyed her Excavating English book, but I can’t say our experience was similar for the cells book. My son was not connecting with the material. If…
As I started to prepare for this school year, I searched out available engineering resources for my 5th grader who loves creative science challenges. I found gold! These studies from Engineering is Elementary are free and most of them only require items you can easily find at a dollar store.…
My oldest child will be going through Conceptual Physics this coming school year. He will be reading the 9th edition Conceptual Physics book and all page numbers and problem numbers are based on that book. Click here to see the book on Amazon. I believe this edition was designed to…
My 6 year old loves Magic School Bus. It has really fostered a love for science in her. I’m taking a bit of that love and exploring the Magic School Bus science topics more in depth with her in the upcoming school year. Basically, each Magic School Bus show is…
A few weeks ago, someone on Facebook posted a quote that went along the lines of “Raise your children for heaven, not Harvard.” I pondered the statement for a little while trying to grasp the logic in it. No, it still didn’t make sense. It was like one of those…
Today I was sitting with my son and mentioned the skin model that we did several years ago. He didn’t remember so I googled my blog and found an old post. Once he saw the pictures, he knew what I was talking about. It was a yummy way to learn…
A trip to the science center is one of our favorite activities. Yesterday was our first excursion to the science center during a school day. Let me just say that we will probably never go on a weekend again. The place was practically empty and there were no lines for…
Science is well-loved in our household. My science background in the areas of chemistry, astronomy, physics, and earth science is lacking – sometimes embarrassingly so. Since the time my oldest child was small he has been into science. My other children, while not so avid in their scientific interests, have…
