Tags: biology, Cells, homeschool science, Mitochondria, science, Video
Biology-Discovering Cells: What is Mitochondria?
Earlier in the week I showed my kids a great cross-section of a cell with our ipad, an app called 3D CellStain. It is a free app I downloaded with hopes of having a broad range of material available for the kids and I to explore. Using the structure tab we discovered a labelled cell and read about each part and all the jobs they are responsible for. A week later I discovered this video called “Powering the Cell: Mitochondria”. Although my children are all under 12 years old at this point, they were amazed by this amazing video journey
More Snow Fun!
This is one of our favourite snow activities! My kids love to play in the snow and build forts (ok sometimes it’s me too 🙂 ). We also love to go out and colour the snow! Snow Art Supplies Needed: Spray bottles Water Food Colouring Snow This is also a great activity to incorporate learning about Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Colours! Learn the colour wheel and play in the snow! The only caution needed for this activity is to be sure the food colouring doesn’t stain your clothing. Ice Castles! Why not take your building blocks outside? Freeze
How to teach project based engineering to kids
This post is nothing but a link to Instructables but this is one OUTSTANDING resource for engineering and projects that are great for the home schooler. Have a look at this article and get an idea of what is possible. How to teach project based engineering to kids:
Homeschool Science with Snow
With each child I have done this simple experiment to show why we don’t eat snow! All you need is a coffee filter, a cup and some snow. Include All Your Children Place a handful of snow in the filter and wait for it to melt. Ask: What temperature is the snow? How long did it take for snow to melt? What properties of matter did you see? Did it change at all? How does the paper filter work? What temperature is the melted snow? What is left in the filter (if you have microscope you could make a
Science, does not have to be geeky or boring…
With sciences sometimes it can be a bit of a challenge to come up with ‘cool’ ways to demonstrate what would normally be boring. I remember my high school chemistry teacher (You know the guy the one that wore cheazy plaid slacks and a bow-tie…) trying to wow us as he poured two chemicals together and they turned purple…. FLOP! Seriously as a kid I wanted sparks and explosions, and you try and show me a color change… really? Thhbbttt! So lets get into how lenses work, and we dont want to be frying up a little ant farm with the sun and potentially
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