How Are Trick Scooters Put Together?
It’s funny. I never really pictured these trick scooters as valuable educational tools. Whoops, I think it’s the most fun and exhilarating their education has been so far!
So how do all these parts go together?
Why Is It Called a Blow Fly and how does it eat?
A few more fly facts: With an incredible sense of smell, blow flies can smell their food over a mile away and their eggs play a crucial role in helping crime scene investigators determine time of death.
Val Salva Works Where WIFI Does Not
Do you remember swimming as deep as you could until your head hurt? Do you wish you could have gone deeper? Did you know it would have been as easy as ‘popping your ears‘? The Valsalva maneuver is the trick used to equalize pressure between your ears where you close your mouth, plug your nose, and […]
Gravitropism and Lion’s Tooth
I have to say, in creating this page, my travels took me to the medicinal and nutrional aspects of dandelions…OR the rubber making…I had no idea. I suppose we have a lot to try now!
Dragonfly Vs Damselfly: Odonata; Since The Triassic?
Bright blue flying stick bugs. Growing up, I just knew they weren’t dragonflies. But what are they? Odonata, my friends, Odonata. Why did I find out? I took a picture of one while out with the kids. They called it a dragonfly. I knew it wasn’t.
Voodoo Rust and an Aviation Graveyard
So if rust needs water or moisture in the air, where do you think you should store a whole bunch of out of service airplanes?
The King is Helpless and the Sneaky Priest
Is there a finer game suited to homeschooling than chess? Maybe. Maybe lots of them. This is about chess though.
You can introduce young kids to chess by researching how castles and kingdoms work. You can introduce things like the power of government and war to older kids more easily by calling on their knowledge of chess.
The Greatest Free, Screen-Free, Ad-Free Homeschool Brain Game!
When you are running errands, when your kids are sitting in the backseat of the car, when you are sitting on the bus, while you are riding bikes, or when you just seem to have nothing to talk about at the time. Try this fantastic silence-breaking brain-builder! When they know their letters, or even before!
