A school of fish

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

Here you see Malachi, looking thrilled (ha ha--this is actually his serious scientist face) demonstrating the balloon lung model. As you ...

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 ...

For our end-of-unit celebration, I decided we'd have a big feast, with one course representing each historical era we studied. As we ...

Throughout this unit, we talked a lot about clothing and identity: what clothing says about a person, what clothing doesn't say about a ...

It was an interesting exercise for me to put the movies I love into some sort of historical order. I hadn't even really placed many of ...

Here is something I made for Daisy. She has a doll—not American Girl brand, but the same size and style—which she loves to dress up, so we ...

After we learned about the fibers that make up different fabrics, we learned about how those fibers are spun and woven together to make f...

Cotton? I'm lucky enough to have a friend who spins and knits with all sorts of fibers, and she kindly let us look at several of h...

During this unit, we put up a big timeline on the wall and wrote all kinds of things on it from other units we've had. Then we put up ...