Fun with friction! Felt and fleece work really well when it comes to adhering to other materials using friction alone. This is a great,...

Christopher Danielson has been a reader of this blog since the beginning. He started the Talking Math with Your Kids blog  where he discuss...

A few weeks ago, J woke me up from a much needed nap telling me that he wanted to do science. I asked what he wanted to do, and he really wa...

We recently had a rodent eat all of the leaves off of our cucumber plants : My husband had high hopes that they would recover. I, on th...

This Dancing Raisins experiment came from our Magic School Bus Science Club  kit on solids, liquids, and gases. It involves raisins, tap wat...

After a month of much needed rain (and we still need more to not see sky-high produce costs this summer), we've been blessed with sunshi...

Let me tell you how excited I am about March 2014. Basically, it's Pi MONTH! 3.14, get it? Why wait till March 14 (also 3.14, in the US,...

J spent a day sick at home last week. It was a minor illness, so he was very antsy about being inside all day. He pulled out his dice to ...

I promised J some science after naptime. I decided to nap too instead of prepare a science lesson. He awoke pretty excited, so I asked him w...

Lately, J has been playing this game where he pulls out everything he owns and hides it behind his back. He then makes us guess what it is ...

It's always fun to do an annual reflection on how things are going with this blog and my goals. Thanks for joining me on our science adv...

I love impromptu science lessons. Today's experience came from J's observations on Grandpa's shadow cast by the streetlights as ...

I've been really behind on posting science experiments. Most of my days are spent at work and then tending to J's needs. By the time...

We're not huge on celebrating Thanksgiving (despite J and I being Mayflower descendants). I feel like kind of a Thanksgiving scrooge (we...

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J loves popping all of our packaging bubbles (luckily for him, we do a lot of online shopping). He has experimented with the most efficient...

We had our last Science Saturday of 2013 the weekend before Halloween and decided it would be most fun to celebrate Halloween with Goo! Here...

We subscribed to the Magic School Bus Science Club  when I found a half off coupon (making each kit ~$10/mo). J is a little young for the in...

I've seen this activity a few places, but this ice and color lesson caught my attention on Pinterest last year. I thought I'd sh...