A school of fish

This is a COOL website. It's a  world sound map , where you can click on a site on the world map, and be taken to recordings of ambien...

Image from here Here's an interesting article about  different words for sounds in different languages This explains  why some wor...

Goldie feeling vibrations (from music coming out of the speakers) pass through a balloon Some sound wave resources:  Video about...

We did a unit on Light last year, so it seemed like we ought to do a unit on Sound too! I love our physics-related units, though every ...

When she heard we were learning about World War II, one of our neighbors volunteered to tell us about her father and father-in-law's ...

We did a whole unit on Nuclear Energy a few years ago. It was one of our favorite units! You can find all the posts about that unit aggreg...

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...