A school of fish

For this activity, I told the children that they had to jump down the stairs from the very highest step they were willing to jump from. W...

We got the idea for this inflation activity here . This one was SO FUN. And it did a good job showing how a minimum wage leads to highe...

I don't expect anyone to follow my garbled lecture notes here! There is quite a lot left out. But I was pleased with the way this dis...

The children, who are quite mercenary little creatures at the best of times, were driven to many new heights of enterprise during this Ec...

I found this  "Snowman Soup" activity  online and it seemed like a good way to talk about profits, brands, and marketing. The a...

Our local Credit Union was happy to let us come have a tour, and the manager was so nice! I am always amazed at how nice people are when ...

Before we learned about currency, I went to the bank and got out one of everything—gold dollars, half dollars, and all the other coins an...

As multiple books on money pointed out, bartering is what all children do automatically with their Halloween candy! Everyone has probably...

(Click any section to enlarge) I've been wanting to do a unit on Economics for a long time, but every time I started trying to ...

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 ...