Science non fictions books and fun experiments for kids to do at home.
Today, we are learning about genes in this STEAM science project for kids courtesy of Monsanto who sent me this science kit so I could do it with my son. Supplies: yarn scissors plastic beads to represent each trait gold or silver beads for tying off the end of the bracelet and for using if…
My 13 year old son loves STEM and finds videos on YouTube to watch. Sometimes he asks to do the experiments and I’ve learned to jump on it. This can be tricky, though, if the experiment requires materials that we don’t have on hand or a complicated set up. I’m starting to stockpile videos of…
Please welcome award-winning guest author, Elizabeth Suneby, with her newest book! Iqbal and His Ingenious Idea: How a Science Project Helps One Family and the Planet by Elizabeth Suneby, illustrated by Rebecca Green This picture book is a celebration of innovation, creative problem solving, sustainability, and love for family. An engaging story to start, interesting facts…
Teaching kids is not an easy task as you have to ensure that you come up with fun ways to enable them to enjoy your teachings at any time of the day. One area that you must teach your kids about is the weather. They also need to know about the different weather changes that…
My son thinks one of the best jobs in the world would be designing lego models. That would be the perfect STEM/STEAM job! I’ve been collecting LEGO videos for my son on some of the coolest things built from LEGOs. Hope you like them too! Lego STEM Creativity: Building Lego Models
It just so happened on our art school tour of the west coast that we would be in the solar eclipse of totality if we were willing to wake up at 4am and drive for a few hours to get to Woodburn, Oregon by 10am. We were. Actually, we didn’t have much choice. As we…
A rainbow is made of the colors red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet. Where did the rainbow come from? All the colors exist in sunlight. We can’t see them because they are mixed together. When sunlight moves from the air to the water in the glass, it bends in a special way. When it…
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development on Tuesday, which found that 15-year-old girls around the world, outperform boys in science – except for in the United States, Britain and Canada. via The Guardian Breaking down theNational Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) scores by gender, girls averaged 151 points (out of a possible 300), three points higher…
This STEM project is to help the bees. Offering native bees a home to build their nests is a good way to share our spades and support them in their hard work of pollinating our gardens. Native bees, if they decide to take up residence in your bee house, are docile and make good neighbors…