Category: STEM
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Zoo animals Unit
Hi, Future Ticia 2024, was linking to this and went over to check on the post and realized I desperately need to update this. So I’ll be back in a few days to do this but for now. I’m just going to dump a list of updates in here to make this a better science…
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How Big is a Whale?
We finished up the chapter on whales and dolphins, but I didn’t think they were quite grasping how big these animals were. If I read to you a whale is 100 feet long would you know how long that is? So we started to investigate, how big is a whale? This made for a great…
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Can you cross the Oobleck Ocean?
A few years ago we studied astronomy (check out our astronomy lessons), and at the end of it all we had a Life in Space Unit, and one of the activities I somehow forgot to write about all those years ago was crossing the Oobleck Ocean. This is a super fun and messy STEM project,…
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How to Teach Hands on Math
In many ways, I think math is one of the easiest subjects to make hands-on. You use math for cooking, for most games, and in many other areas. However, at the same time, Future Ticia 2025, who is updating this post, is also aware that as kids get older, we don’t stop and take the…
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How do ocean currents move and how does this affect navigation?
One of the weird random facts I learned about Benjamin Franklin is that he learned how the ocean currents move and charted the Atlantic Current. If Benjamin Franklin is ever the subject on Jeopardy, I’m set. Since that’s not likely to happen, I set the kids to an ocean currents experiment and had lots of…