Take a look at Macmillan/McGraw-Hill "Science A Closer Look." It has the full curriculum for grades K-6. Each book has 40+ experiments you can...
Nuts and dried fruit make a great veggie snack. There's a wonderful Mac & "Cheese" recipe in Country Life that has no dairy and has great...
It seems unfair to ask homeschooling parents to buy a book and then ALSO buy a lab kit. My opinion: all elementary school science can and should...
For first grade, you can go it alone. Get your child used to investigating and taking notes. Investigate anything. Here are some suggestions....
Are you seeking two sets of suggestions - one for science and one for history? Or are you looking for ways to combine science and history?
But what about 99.9% or 99.99% or 99.999% or 99.9999%? No measurement is perfectly precise. Absolutely none. You can calculate pi to any...
You might as well say that all science is flawed. Everything human is flawed in some sense of the word. The flaws in dating are small and not...
Bacteria produce carbon dioxide as a byproduct of their metabolism. Carbon dioxide in water creates carbonic acid. A common experiment uses...
"75+ years after the Kensington Rune Stone was found, there is still heated debate over it. Why? Because historians just know that there were no...
Science remains the most difficult subject to provide in homeschool and online environments. It also has been quite difficult to provide at a...
scottiegazelle - great thoughts. You're absolutely right about design and failure.
If you're looking for some synthetic chemistry to do at home, you'll not find many ideas that are safe. For an inorganic synthesis, try making...
If you do this at home, ask your student to predict what will happen to the sound as the glass fills with water.
You can readily make your own glass harmonica. Google the following: glass harmonica young engineers. Sorry for the indirect reference. I'm...
The window heat loss example is great. I haven't done the math myself and must assume that you've got it spot on. The point that you should...
If your child likes reading, you can find lots of really good biographies. The best ones illustrate the nature of science and the sort of...
If you happen to have an electronic keyboard available to you, you can cut sections of plastic pipe, place them over the speaker, and observe...
Science isn't against anything. It's a process, not an institution. I can say, however, that scientists very carefully avoid circular...
Science is agnostic. It neither supports nor opposes religion. Science is simply exploring, reporting, and suggesting explanations....
Have you tried the Society for Amateur Scientists? They help with science fair projects and have a sort of club they call LabRats. You can...
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