A school of fish

click to enlarge We have covered major body systems in our school before: the cardiovascular system , the nervous system , a genetics un...

This was a pretty short unit, and we have learned about some of these concepts before, in our Nervous System and Light and Optics Units...

We talked about semi-permeable membranes and how nutrients, oxygen, and other things pass from the capillaries to the cells, or the alveo...

Not sure there is much to say about this. We made heart cookies. The little kids just used regular-shaped hearts and frosted them in sect...

After we did the blood typing activity we quickly smeared some of that nice blood onto a microscope slide so we could look at it! We have...

You know what's really fun? Testing your blood to find out what type it is. I already knew my blood type, but I wanted to do this act...

This unit had a lot of content but very few pictures, for some reason. I do have a few other posts I will put up, but I'll link most ...

We started this unit with an overview of cells: their structure and composition, and how they work. This was a bit of a review, since we ...

  This was a good unit to do right before our new baby was born, because it gave us lots of chances to talk about who we really are and how ...

This one is Seb's crystal-growing machine We learned about homeostasis and positive and negative feedback cycles, and then I had th...