A school of fish

Image from wikipedia Innovations used on D-Day Why was it called "D-Day" ? Scenes from D-Day, then and now More "be...

We talked about the Holocaust  very briefly  a long time ago, but as the children are older now, we covered it in a lot more depth this ti...

I read a lot of books which talked about the evacuation of children from England during the war. ( The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe , f...

(click top or bottom section to enlarge) I feel like World War II consumed so much of our year, although the unit itself took only a c...

Sebastian is, oddly, really interested in intersections and road markings and so forth lately. He makes endless drawings like the one abo...

Abe by a rare LaFerrari, or the Ferrari The Ferrari, as they always call it on "Top Gear." I wanted to take the children to a ...

Sam taught the children about car design and how designers often use existing chassis to make designing easier. He showed them how to tak...

I wanted the children to learn how to change a car tire, as this felt like one of the most practical things we could teach them. I've...

My friend's dad loves old cars and has rebuilt many different types in his garage over the years. We went over to her dad's house...

Here are a bunch of good links about gears  from when we learned about them earlier in our Simple Machines unit. A car gear shift doe...

To talk about engines, we had some friends of ours over for dinner—Derek works in airplane design and engineering, but he has also al...

(click to enlarge) This Automobile Unit is one I promised Abe ages ago. I'm not sure how he got so interested in cars, since I hav...

I mentioned before how much I liked making an insect collection when I was in sixth grade, and I think I enjoyed it even more this time....