taking the fear out of and putting the fun into homeschool science
Try this fun STEM activity to help your kids learn about surface tension, water striders, and physics. They will love getting creative and playing with water! This post contains affiliate links. I love experiments and STEM activity books. They are a great way to teach science and to develop independent learners. My bookshelves are full of them! Some of my books are broad-based and
Earth Day is celebrated April 22 each year. It is a day set aside to bring awareness to the importance of protecting our planet. The first official Earth Day was in 1970 in response to increasing oil spills, smog, and water pollution. All across the United States, there were protests and public gatherings with the intention of educating the public about the problems facing the
Keep this list of STEM activities for kids handy for use at school and at home. Your kids will have so much fun they will forget they are learning! I am sure you are familiar with the latest buzzword in education – STEM. Actually, it is more than the latest educational trend. STEM is an acronym for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. The integration STEM of
Science experiments can be so much fun for kids, especially when the experiment is yummy! Try this jelly bean taste experiment to learn more about the sense of taste and how it is linked to the sense of smell. Have you ever smelled something cooking and in your mind you could actually taste it without even putting it into your mouth? Have you ever had
This post contains affiliate links. Imagining a cell is sometimes hard for students the first time around. Think about it. A cell is so small that you cannot see it with the naked eye, yet it contains many complex structures that run complex processes all within a permeable cell membrane and they are the building blocks of all life. That is kind of mind-blowing, don’t
When our eye sees something, it sends a message to the brain to make sense of the image. The brain keeps that image for about 1/10 to 1/30th of a second. That doesn’t seem like very long, but it makes a big difference in how we process the world around us. We can create a vision science experiment of our own that helps to show
One of my favorite parts of Apologia Biology is the when we start dissections. Seriously. I love when the kids see first hand what we have been learning about in the text. I know that dissections can sound gross, but trust me, dissections make the curriculum come alive. Don’t skip them! Dissections in Apologia Biology start with the earthworm. Earthworms are a great introductions to invertebrates and an
Have you ever played baseball and had a line drive hit right at you? Your ability to catch the ball largely depends on your reaction time. Reaction time is how fast or slow your body reacts to a stimuli such as a ball being hit at you, a starting gun in a race, or something darting in front of you while you are driving. It
Animal tracks are evidence for the presence of animals in an area. Even if the animal is elusive and sneaky, or active mostly at night. They all leave behind tracks. *This post contains affiliate links. Many of us have bird feeders in our backyard so birds will come close enough for us to see them well. We observe them through our windows, and some birds
The purpose of eating food is to obtain the nutrients our bodies need to stay alive and perform all our daily tasks. The process of breaking down food into the nutrients our bodies can use is called digestion. Even though digestion takes place inside our bodies, we can do this simple digestion experiment to see the first steps of digestion in action. Follow me over
These Human Anatomy and Physiology resources were compiled during our Apologia science study. They are full of experiments, videos, activities, and other tools to make your anatomy and physiology study come alive. They will work great with any curriculum or study of the human body. Apologia Human Anatomy And Physiology Notebooking Journal Skeletal System Muscular System Digestive System Experiments Nutrition Study Resources Respiratory System Learning
The backyard is the greatest science classroom ever. You can launch studies of plants, animals, insects, weather, physics, and more right there at home. All you have to do is open the back door. One of the easiest ways to start an open ended nature study is with a nature survey. They are easy, cheap, fun, and can teach so much. What Is A Nature
