A special “thank you” goes to this post source (link at end of post). It’ll be a few more weeks before it really gets up and going, but I’m starting to add helpful links and info about learning physics at home to this year’s science blog, Home Physics. Come visit! And feel free to comment [...]

A special “thank you” goes to this post source (link at end of post). The end of the month is approaching and if you have completed and linked to any of the Outdoor Hour Challenges during the month of September, please consider submitting them to the OHC Blog Carnival. All entries from September are accepted: [...]

A special “thank you” goes to this post source (link at end of post). From the ByteSize Science blog of the American Chemical Society: The award-winning high school chemistry magazine ChemMatters is making its YouTube debut with its first ever video podcast. The first episode highlights the very big promise of those very small machines [...]

A special “thank you” goes to this post source (link at end of post). Today we were playing around with some balloons (which we often do when things get slow) and we had an idea to add a Halloween twist to a familiar static experiment. It is really quite a lot of fun and super [...]

A special “thank you” goes to this post source (link at end of post). So we were out for a walk and I decided to take a photo of the Queen Anne’s Lace with all its seeds and the clusters. It is so pretty even now that it is drying up in the September drought. [...]

A special “thank you” goes to this post source (link at end of post). According to my fellow GeekDad contributor Jenny Williams, The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing –Richard Dawkins’ collection of essays by science writers famous and obscure on everything from astronomy to biology, genetics, evolution, chemistry and relativity– is “400 pages of [...]

A special “thank you” goes to this post source (link at end of post). In regular school a subject is just as much fun as the subject teacher can make it. So you owe it to your child to be a good teacher if you are a home schooling parent. To make a subject fun [...]

A special “thank you” goes to this post source (link at end of post). Sarah Toney homeschools four active boys ages 2, 4, 6, and 8 in Tennessee. She recently tried out a simple experiment to help her boys observe a cool chemical reaction. For Sarah’s experiment you will need: 1 tsp (5ml) dry yeast [...]

A special “thank you” goes to this post source (link at end of post). While some resources accompany your homeschool curriculum there is a whole lot more that you can find online. A number of companies which develop homeschool curriculum related study material offer limited time free downloads to excellent resources. You just need to [...]

A special “thank you” goes to this post source (link at end of post). This year’s garden was eventful, and deserves a report: 1. The Three Sisters Garden worked great! Following the directions from NativeTech, I planted corn, stringbeans and various kinds of squash Native American-style. We had way more corn than the previous year [...]