A school of fish

We did a whole unit on Nuclear Energy a few years ago. It was one of our favorite units! You can find all the posts about that unit aggreg...

We started this unit with static electricity, and to understand that, you first have to understand ions. We learned about ions when we st...

So many of our books couldn't get over the idea that Fusion! is the Energy! of the Future!  I found their reasoning pretty simplistic...

My explanation of the famous equation. That's what it all comes down to, right? Anything x Very Big = also Very Big? :) Every sin...

I thought of various ways we could build models of the atom, and finally decided on this one as the simplest. I saw some instructions for ...

Regular Hydrogen with its isotopes, deuterium and tritium I've always thought isotopes were a little tricky to visualize. But the ...

We decided to plan a nuclear energy unit after we went to the Museum of Nuclear Science and History in Albuquerque a few months ago...