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The Science Club
This last week saw the first meeting of the Science and Engineering Club. As the gifted and talented person at the elementary school, I set up the club last year to fill a hole in academic...
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Stargazing
I want to share a great app for anyone teaching astronomy, the planets or the moon. It is called Stellarium. It is an open-source program—100% free—that turns any computer into an instant...
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Astronomy Night
As I mention frequently, we are a small school, and being a small school means that some people have to wear a lot of hats. My official title is teacher; however, the reality is I teach fifth grade in...
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Bridge Building
My students are working hard on their next science club project: bridge-building. This is a project in engineering where students try and build the strongest bridge with the least amount of materials....
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Yes, It Is That Cold.
We have had the strangest winter anyone can remember. A few weeks ago it was nearly 50 degrees in the January, and now, less than a week later the temperature drops from that balmy number to -10. That...
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Futurecade and the Science Museum
I got a chance to play with a really nice set of games created by the Science Museum in England. They have developed a set of really fun games called Futurecade. Some of these games are based some of...
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3-D Toad
Perhaps I have mentioned my rather macabre group of female students. Their interests include diseases, anatomy, and watching Bones. They once begged me to find them cow hearts to dissect and pour over...
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Thingdom Takes Over My Classroom
I was first introduced to the idea of genetics when I was a high school freshman in biology class. I found the idea of recessive and dominant traits fascinating. It was also reassuring that the things...
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Butterfuel?
Had a really fun activity this week; not exactly technology, but it was a really fun science lesson on alternative fuels. We had just finished a unit in science on alternative energy. Being that all my...
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Stuff to Blow Your Kid’s Mind
One of my favorite websites is HowStuffWorks.com. I like HowStuffWorks for its content almost as much as I like it for having a name that actually describes what it does. HowStuffWorks is home to...
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