STEM Challenge for Spring: Garden Planter Box A math-intensive STEM challenge that can be useful when planning out a school or home garden...

Fun STEM Challenge for Fall: Design and Create an Acorn Chute What a fun STEM challenge for kids! This challenge takes the idea of a rolle...

Autumn is my favorite season by far. Unfortunately it never lasts long enough for me; winter always comes too soon! I don't mind winter,...

Create a Unique Zoo with Old Magazines Nerd joke: What do you get when you cross a monkey and an elephant? Monkey Elephant sin θ. (More on...

From top left, and clockwise: Finishing a 1000 piece puzzle, the start of soccer season, nature walk (4), playground fun, seedlings growi...

Fall Leaf Art Project I have been wanting to do this project with the kids ever since reading about it over at Cassie Stephens's blog ...

Strawberry stats so far Days picking: 10 Number of strawberries picked: 676 Weight of strawberries picked: 7480g, or 16.49lb The kids ...

I recently posted about exploring pointillism with rainbow s, and with Earth Day coming soon I thought I would share. Print out a line drawi...

Nearly all of the snow is gone. We had a great winter, full of sledding, shoveling, and snowmen. I am so glad spring is upon us, though, bec...

Is it a natural resource or a man made resource? This was a question we covered recently in one of our homeschooling study units. The topic ...

Hurricane Sandy was a disaster for so many people in the northeast US, but we were lucky enough this year to avoid the issues we encountered...

We did this cloud project a couple of months ago and it is something that has really stuck with the boys. They often point out "serious...