Category: Science
Across Canada in 10 Days, Day 3 – Big Breakfasts, Cowgirls & Dinosaurs (Oh My)
Predestined seemed the only word hovering in the air over Eastern Alberta on Saturday. Since what Mhari would consider the beginning of time we’ve found ourselves mega fans of all thing prehistoric and talking as a family about the journey to the Land Before Time. So, on the first of our scheduled down days, it’s [...]
Kids Art – The Science of Salt
Our oldest daughter and I love to combine science and art. We’re always looking for ways to combine mediums to create something really cool while seeing how things like salt, flour, dirt and water work together. So, when we were working recently on a science unit about absorption, we decided to try something fun combining [...]
3-D Books for the Scientist Kid In Your House
As we move into the holiday season, I am working on making sure that our 5 year old gets her full dose of science nerd as she is so into owls and dinosaurs right now that our entire universe seems to have wingasaurus tendencies. She also loves books just about as much, but finding age-appropriate [...]
Vote The Elasmosaur For British Columbia's Provincial Fossil
So, it’s pretty much official in our house that there has never been more exciting news than the possibility that the Elasmosaur – the Comox Valley’s own Elasmosaur – is in the running to become the new official British Columbia fossil. We lovers of the dinosaur kind here could not believe our ears when it [...]
Green Learning – Reinvent by Reusing
Editor’s Note: Good afternoon. If you missed us this morning, you can check out Pauline Rae’s informative story on Montessori education HERE. Now we have Gayle Bates with some highly creative tips on reinventing old household items. Here she is: Aaaah November – the month between the crazy consumption potential of Halloween and the even [...]
Kid Science – All About Apples
Summer is starting to break a bit (gasp) and sooner rather than later it will be time to break out the turtlenecks and toques. The big sign for me that my favourite time of year is nearly upon us is the arrival of local apples at the market. I am, thankfully, on the early end [...]
Art Project Books for Kids All About Science and Math
Once upon a time, in a land far, far away, there lived a kid who wanted to move her life to one centrally scientific and seriously fun location – Science World. Somewhere between the dinosaurs and Lego land, her brain engaged the science universe (or at least the serious fun universe) and now there’s no [...]
Life Cycles for Preschoolers
OK, so there are a couple realities to working on “learning” projects with a preschooler: 1. Attention span that generally amounts to nanoseconds 2. The constant reminder that 37-year-old mom obviously knows far less than 3.5-year-old child 3. Permanent mess syndrome 4. Sitting at the dining room table is the LAST thing on anyone’s mind [...]
Beakers KidScience – Alternative Energy
I’m a science geek…and I’m good with that. So, as we wrap up with Jeanne DuPrau’s blog book tour for the fourth Books of Ember Diamond of Darkhold it was pretty much required that I geek out in the kid learning department. I don’t suspect that our 3-year-old is going to be picking up DuPrau’s [...]
Learning Trees With Leaf Hangings
There is a bit of a chill in the air and early last week, as I was packing us into the truck, I spotted red leaves. Then yellow, even a couple of orange beauties stood out against the bluer than blue sky. We’d been talking, the last couple of times out in the woods, about [...]
Studying Sunflowers
The sun this week has totally inspired us to dig out our science gear and plug into some Fall nature study projects in the form of those gorgeous sunflowers brightening patches all over town. Grandma is completely to blame for our love affair with sunflowers this year, as she planted a TON of them in [...]
A Home Museum with Shadow Boxes
Zoology, Botany and Forestry aren’t exactly in the vocabulary of the under-5 set. Yet, every time we hit the beach, the garden or the trail, science is following us around. Each pine cone or shell tucked in a tiny pocket reveals something significant about a place we’ve explored. (Yes, OK, I am total science nerd.) [...]
The Science of Beans
As the tiny person gets older, her curiosity in the checking-out-how-it-works realm grows exponentially. Catch her out on the trail and she’ll be the one digging through the dirt, picking up creatures to examine and – in yesterday’s case – experimenting with the whole theory of velocity when pitching her boots into the marsh. At [...]
The Birds and the Bees Pollinate Please
The rather frigid nature of our Spring this year may have you thinking twice about the season (although the shot above from local mom Krista gives me hope). But, even as we continue to scrape the occasional frost off of our windshields in the mornings, Mother Nature is waking her kiddos up from their long [...]
Making Bats for Spooky Learning
When I sent away for the Canadian Wildlife Federation’s free Wild About Bats package a few months ago, I sincerely wondered what I would ever do with it. The tiny person was not in any way interested in flying spooky creatures at that point and, much like the snake one I also sent away for, [...]
