taking the fear out of and putting the fun into homeschool science
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
This post contains affiliate links. My kids are like most kids. They love to experiment, build, invent, and create. It’s nothing in our house to have an experiment going on in the kitchen, an engineering project going on in the living room, a building project going on in the basement, and an art project underway in the toy room….all at the same time! Keeping
It’s hard to concentrate on academics during the holiday season. Kids have gifts, cookies, and parties on their minds. Often, parents do too. We all just want to relax and have fun. So, why not make learning during the holidays fun? These Christmas chemistry activities have all the fun of the holiday season, plus your kids will learn as they do them! They will
Our family has always had a little fascination with demolition and wrecking balls. We love to watch demolition videos where they lay charges in just the right areas of one building making it fall straight down without touching the surrounding buildings. That is brilliant engineering with a firm grasp on physics. Video: Best Building Demos We, also, love to watch buildings being demolished by wrecking
Take advantage of the season with these Thanksgiving STEM activities. The supplies listed for these projects are probably already sitting around your house, waiting to be used. From making fresh butter in a jar to building candy corn catapults, you will have plenty to keep your kids busy, especially during Thanksgiving break. You could also set up an area for all of the kids on
When we first started homeschooling my daughter, I loved searching for new science experiments to do with her. I would find experiments that went along with the science we were studying and I would find others just for fun. Sometimes, I would have all the supplies we needed and other times we would have to take a trip to the store. It was all part
Fall is a beautiful time of year. The changing hues of the leaves on the trees set the color palette for the season. This is a perfect opportunity to ask your kids questions such as, “Why do you think leaves change color?” “What makes leaves green or red or yellow?” After your discussion, set up a project to teach them about the pigments found in leaves and
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
I’ve always loved field trips. I remember my school field trips to a dairy farm, a bakery, and a museum. They were lots of fun, but nothing like the field trips Ms. Frizzle takes her class on in the Magic School Bus! Our family has always been big fans of the Magic School Bus books and videos. We joined Ms. Frizzle and her class on field
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
*This post contains affiliate links. Learn more about the physics of sound with these simple sound experiments. You’ll investigate volume and pitch and what causes changes in their qualities The sounds we hear – voices, music, birds chirping, dogs barking – are all caused by vibrations. When objects vibrate, they transfer energy in the form of sound waves. These sound waves travel through the air and
*This post contains affiliate links. Convection is one of three main types of heat transfer. The other two being radiation and conduction. Convection is the transfer of heat by the movement of heated particles into an area of cooler particles. You can experience convection when you light a match. The air directly above the lit match is always hotter than the air around the match. This difference in
