Posted in science on Aug 12th, 2009 2 Comments »
Over on my Fieldwork blog I have gathered some resources for writing lab reports at various levels. Although the post was written specifically for those participating in our Marine Biology course, there are some good links there that would apply to any science course your students may be doing. Hop on over and check it [...]
Posted in science on Jun 16th, 2009 15 Comments »
This is entirely too cool! So, I was reading a post at the always-inspiring blog the moveable alphabet. The beginning of the post was about magnets, which we’ve kinda done to death, but at the end, there was a link to this: The-Hunt-for-Micrometeorites which I showed to JBug and we were both blown away at [...]
Posted in science on May 13th, 2009 6 Comments »
JBug’s exploits seem to have a bit of “direction” to them lately! For example: She is having fun with her hundred board in combination with arrows… moving a glass bead this way and that, from one number to another, with some nifty activities downloaded from Mathwire here. (She LOVES to do these and I can [...]
Posted in art, Curriculum or Lack Thereof..., JBug, living math, science on May 3rd, 2009 8 Comments »
The mice will play! Superboy was off with his scout troop the other day, so JBug and I were busy, busy, busy following her interests. It all began with a simple question ( prompted by a veggie tales song). “Mommy, why do I have a belly button?” (Hmmm. Have we not discussed this yet? Amazing [...]
Posted in Curriculum or Lack Thereof..., science on Apr 23rd, 2009 9 Comments »
Yesterday was the third and final day for Superboy and JBug to complete the challenges I issued to them on monday, so they went right to work. Superboy wasted no time in setting his solar still out for a full day of sun. Concerned that he would not have enough water for the taste test [...]
Posted in Curriculum or Lack Thereof..., science on Apr 21st, 2009 4 Comments »
Today we had intended on getting to work right away continuing our challenges from yesterday, but we got distracted by breakfast with dad at IHOP, a lovely morning beach-combing walk, and a trip to the library. Then once home a brief rain shower delayed the start-up a bit longer, but eventually… …the sun came out [...]
Posted in Curriculum or Lack Thereof..., science on Apr 20th, 2009 17 Comments »
(5 totally worthless points if you can name the poem that my title came from and supply the next line) Today was a fantastic day, educationally speaking. This morning we picked up our new nature study book (Seaside Naturalist) and read the pages on ocean basics and sea water. We learned a few things, and [...]
Posted in science on Mar 28th, 2009 7 Comments »
In order to celebrate Earth Hour this year we turned off all our lights (of course) and then took the opportunity to take a flashlight walk down to the beach. It was a wonderful night! Who could these ghouls be??? You guessed it! Jack-Jack and Squirt were with us this weekend and joined us on [...]
Posted in art, JBug, language arts, science on Jan 15th, 2009 17 Comments »
JBug’s drawing of Venus in soft pastel: Do I file this under art or science? Or language arts? And why bother making the distinction?
Posted in science, Superboy's projects on Jan 14th, 2009 16 Comments »
So the fuel cell car project is on hold. The building of it went well, but… it turns out we do not have enough sunlight to power the thing. See, it uses a solar cell to power the fuel cell, which in turn powers the car. And not only do we have limited number of [...]
