A school of fish

  Our second "Summer School" unit was Natural Disasters, another perennial favorite topic among especially little boys (though my ...

My friend pinned this Snowflake crystal-growing project and I thought it looked fun, so I slotted it into our day about Avalanches and I...

One of the most interesting things we learned related to avalanches was about the invention of the "avalanche airbag." We did t...

Here are a few resources for wildfires and lightning: In the past, we have had fun making "lightning" with balloons and light...

We quite enjoyed learning about tsunamis! Because of recent tsunamis in Japan and Thailand, there is a LOT of video footage of these huge ...

I'm not totally sure I'm clear about the difference between a seismograph and a seismometer---I think seismograph is the older te...

The children kept asking for a Natural Disasters Unit, but we'd already talked about several of these things (volcanoes in our volcano...

Sebby is SO HAPPY about this huge quartz crystal! We went to the Natural History museum especially for their "special exhibit...