This summer we were blessed to spend two weeks in Costa Rica as a family. It was quite the learning
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Science
The Learning Power of Lego
Via: Online College Advice Do you use Lego Educational products in your classroom or homeschool?
Hands on Science: Polymer Powder & Water
http://www.youtube.com/get_player In this video Pumpkin used the Little Professor Science Kit: Polymers to try the “Perform a cool magic trick”
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Wisconsin Fast Plants: Life cycle of a plant
We enjoyed our unit on the life cycle of a Wisconsin Fast plant and I was so impressed with the
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Chemistry videos
Chemistry comes alive with these free videos from the Journal of Chemical Education which explains and demonstrates various chemical reactions.
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Chemistry: Experimenting with Polymers
Pumpkin is experimenting with Polymers this week using this kit that we purchased at our state homeschool convention last May.
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Experimenting with electricity: Static Electricity
We are finally returning to our homeschool groove and with that comes getting back to our hands-on approach to learning.
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Lunar Eclipse on time lapse video
I’ll admit it, I’m not a night person and so we totally missed this. No way could I stay up
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Lego Smart: There’s more than one way to build a duck
Today for fun we broke out our Lego Smart kit and the assignment was to make a duck. Both boys
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FREE Lego Club Jr. magazine & teacher’s guide
First grade educators can request a FREE copy of Lego Education’s Lego Club Jr. School Edition magazine and teacher’s guide.
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40th anniversary of first moon landing (July 20, 1969)
Whoops! I just realized I forgot to post this but the resources are still good… July 20, 2009 marked the
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How to tell the sex of a Monarch butterfly
Can you tell the difference between a female and a male Monarch butterfly? It is surprisingly easy! The male Monarch
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Lifecycle of Monarch Butterfly
After a few false starts and an invasion from the dreaded Milkweed bugs, we are finally able to start enjoying
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Teaching with Google Earth
Did you know you can take your kids on a virtual field trip to the deepest part of the ocean,
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States of Matter & The Biology of Glue
With all of the science projects we have going on, it seems that we are making up for lost time!
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Owl Pellet Dissection
It was inevitable that we would get to the part in our nature study where we dissect owl pellets. It
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