Looking for an easy, fun science experiment? You can create a crystal snowflake using a pipe cleaner, string, a glass jar, water and Borax. You can find the instructions for the experiment at https://www.stevespanglerscience.com/lab/experiments/magic-crystal-snowflake/ One caveat – whatever jar you use to make this will be covered in crystals as well. I wasn’t able to clean mine and had to… Read more →
Are you looking for lab materials for middle or high school science? Quality Science Labs offers lab materials for a full year’s worth of experiments/investigations. Materials are offered for physical science, life science, biology, chemistry, and physics. Lab manuals are included. Find out more at http://www.qualitysciencelabs.com
In their June 2016 issue, Catholic Library World published an article by Terry Maksymowych on teaching bioethics to middle and high school students. “Bioethics is the field concerned with the ethical problems and philosophical implications of certain biological and medical research, procedures, technologies, and treatments.” Unlike morality which deals with individual behavior, ethics is a social issue. She quotes St…. Read more →
IPC consists of twelve chapters of text and twelve companion student activities. This course introduces students to the people, places and principles of physics and chemistry. It is written by internationally respected scientist/author, John Hudson Tiner, who applies the vignette approach which effectively draws readers into the text and holds attention. The author and editors have deliberately avoided complex mathematical… Read more →
Looking for some interesting books to introduce your child to the systems of the human body? Thomas Canavan has recently come out with the <i>How Your Body Works</i> series, published by Arcturus Publishing Limited. The books in the series include: Sensing the World (The Nervous System), Ready for Action (Bones and Muscles), Fighting Illness and Injury (The Immune System), Fueling… Read more →
Have you ever wondered how you can eat the things that you eat or how you can breathe or move your arms? If you think about it, it’s pretty amazing that the human body can do all of the things that it does. Your body is made up of what are called systems. These systems are collections of organs and… Read more →
I found a recipe for slime in The Everything Guide to Homeschooling. This was super easy: 1) Pour an 8 ounce bottle of school glue into a mixing bowl. Fill the empty glue bottle with warm water and shake. Pour this water into the mixing bowl with the glue and mix well. 2) Measure 1/2 cup of warm water in… Read more →
As part of their botany curriculum this year, my teen boys had to read The Groundbreaking, Chance-Taking Life of George Washington Carver and Science and Invention in America . This is one of a series of books by written and illustrated by Cheryl Harness and published by the National Geographic Society. While I haven’t read the others, I can tell… Read more →
October is officially Respect for Life Month, and although this is a very important topic, sometimes it is hard to figure out how to discuss it with little ones. Because of this, I was so thrilled to find the fabulous resource Life is Precious, which is aimed at Kindergarten – 2nd grade children and goes through important and basic topics of… Read more →
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