Make a Salad Spinner Zoetrope
The theme for this week’s Unplugged Project was wheel. I searched around for ideas and came up with this one which sounded really interesting: a zoetrope! What is a zoetrope you ask? (I didn’t know...
View ArticleNice Day + Old Fish Tank = Terrarium
Are you without any ideas for organized unplugged things to to do on a nice Spring day but you aren’t feeling ambitious enough for a full blown Children’s Garden? Do you have an old fish tank, or...
View ArticleWatch the Perseid Meteors Tonight
Last night I woke my two oldest children up at 2:30AM. I led my confused and sleepy babies out onto the golf course behind our house armed with a flashlight and a blanket. I spread out the blanket...
View ArticleSecret Codes: The Cardan Grille (“Messages” Unplugged Project)
My two oldest children are really into secret codes at the moment and when I asked them for suggestions for this month’s Unplugged Project theme, my 8 year-old son immediately said “Messages! We could...
View ArticleInvisible Ink Messages (“Messages” Unplugged Project)
All spies love invisible ink. In honor of this month’s Unplugged Project theme of messages here are two simple methods for making secret, invisible ink messages out of ordinary ingredients....
View ArticleMagic Expanding Hand!
Here is a fun science experiment that will totally entertain your kids AND teach them a bit of chemistry. Great rainy day educational fun! INGREDIENTS: All you need is vinegar, baking soda, and a...
View ArticleFireworks in a Dish
If you have milk, food coloring and dish washing soap on hand… you can have impressive rainy-day science fun! Pour some milk into a plate: Wait a minute for any motion in the milk to settle down, then...
View ArticlePumpkins
It’s fall and a perfect time to study pumpkins! First I read the class Pumpkin Circle: The Story of a Garden by George Levenson and Shmuel Thaler, a lovely book about the life-cycle of a pumpkin. The...
View ArticleSuper Fun with the Supermoon
Lunar Standard Time – What time is it on the Moon? Image: By Gregory H. Revera (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) or GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html)],...
View ArticleDensity Ornaments – Science Plus Holiday Art!
We decorated our Christmas tree this evening. During the process, someone found a long lost box of empty glass ball Christmas ornaments that they sell at craft stores. They are the kind that you can...
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