Science non fictions books and fun experiments for kids to do at home.
Best Science Apps for Kids (ages 4-21) is my #3 most popular post of 2015. I remember that this post didn’t get much traffic when I first posted it. I continued to add to the post as readers gave me suggestions and one day, much later, it took off after I made this image and…
My son and I watched dozens of videos from The Kid Should See This to find our four favorites: Watch how plants explode their seeds. If you play soccer or basketball, you’ll love this video on backspin called the Magnus Effect. I want a tree like this: a tree with forty kinds of fruit! It’s…
My son tried out the Meccano Mountain Rally 25 Model Set. He likes to assemble things but hasn’t really had a lot of opportunity to use tools so I thought that would be fun for him. It’s a kit with a lot mechanical pieces and a detailed instruction manual on how to assemble it. My son…
This week is Computer Science Education Week! I have been trying to get my 11-year-old son to program as a way to combat his love of screen time. It turns out that he likes making his own games so it’s a win-win situation. We started off when he was in third grade — he’s now in…
Jeanette and I love doing the Left Brain/Right Brain Gifts for Kids list. She is taking the Right Brain art toys today and I’m tackling Left Brain STEM toys with a math or science bent. Is that even right? I looked it up from About Education: The Right Brain According to the left-brain, right-brain dominance…
Did you catch the supermoon lunar eclipse this past September 27th, 2015? It’s a supermoon and a lunar eclipse or ‘blood moon’ happening at the same time. It was visible around much of the planet in a rare celestial event. The last one was in 1982 and the next one is in 2033. We watched it here a few miles…
My favorite time-lapse video is of Lotte growing up. Her father shot her every day and made two versions: Birth to 12 Years and 0 to 14 years. This is under my life list: Things I Would Do If I Could Do It Over Again. I think I was just too brain-dead when I was…