Layers of the Earth The earth has 3 basic layers--the crust, the mantle, and the core. Texts will emphasize the thinness of the crust. Mak...

Basic Rock Identification Around here we rarely find rocks made of a single mineral that we can identify through color, luster, streak, hard...

More About Cohesion and Adhesion I found so many experiments about the topic I created an entire webinar with a whole series of experiments ...

Buckyballs and Molecular Biology I found this article to be an interesting if unusual connection between biology and math. Buckyball Compute...

Surface Tension Water is an amazing molecule for many, many reasons, one of which is it's incredible surface tension. First read thi...

I successfully completed my first webinar! It has all sorts of information about homeschooling science, resources, and lots of experiments ...

I know, it's Sunday, but I had to work all day yesterday... Any guesses what this is a picture of?

I have thoroughly enjoyed the live webinars at Homeschool Connections, and many more have been scheduled, including mine! Science At Home: S...

Tinkering With Inertia Newton's first law of motion describes inertia: a body a rest will stay at rest, and a body in motion will stay i...

This week’s challenge is inspired by the Journey North: Mystery Class in which our co-op is participating. Seasons change because the earth...

We've been learning about properties of matter, and this week's experiment demonstrates a few of them. We read pages 10 - 19 in the...

Expanding and contracting air has myriad applications; in our home lab we'll use it to inflate and deflate a balloon. Adding heat energ...

Pressure is force applied over an area, P = F/A. The larger the area, the less the force on each unit of area. In other words, the force is ...

Welcome to Science Saturday Challenge #1! We'll start with something you have probably seen before: making a pH indicator. Materials: Re...

I am starting a new project here called Science Saturday. On Saturday I will post a science experiment for you to try out during the week. ...