Ds#3 loves to watch videos from The Happy Scientist Robert Krampf and then goes about performing them.  This time around he got busy crush...

I never did blog about the Science Olympiad competition, until now that is.  Our competition was back in March.  In the end we had a t...

As a start to our exploration in chemistry this year, I introduced a fun exercise about how science works.  This comes from a 1998 publica...

I mentioned problems with OSV's PandaMania on the At Home Science Yahoo group and several people have asked for more details.  I wrote a...

The Edgerton Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology offers free project-based classes to school groups.  This year our entire c...

While we are still continuing with Secrets of the Universe (having embarked on Liquids and Gases ) it is time again for Journey North .  M...

This Thursday, August 12, is a good night to have an amateur astronomy party.  Every summer the Perseid Meteor Showers dazzle us with their ...

This fall, with Ds#1 being of sixth grade age, we are embarking on a year of physics using the Paul Fleisher series, Secrets of the Univers...

We began our first day of our cloud study.  I described the scenario from the booklet and read the first section of the prerequisite knowled...

We don't have that many weeks until our summer break and I wanted to finish up our year of earth science learning something related to w...

We belong to a small (18 families) homeschooling enrichment group without a co-op, but we love to get together for field trips and events.  ...

A friend of mine recently started a workshop based on The Private Eye: "5x" Looking/Thinking by Analogy and I am hooked! The pro...

If you live anywhere near Cambridge, MA, the Edgerton Center at MIT offers several free LEGO kit science classes. I arranged for our homes...

We completed the first two weeks of data recording. From the beginning until the spring equinox, all you need to do is record sunrise and s...

The program begins on Monday so I go the kids ready during co-op yesterday. I put together packets for each of them. Last year I had proble...