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Before You Buy a Telescope
A telescope can be useful piece of astronomy equipment, as long as the person is adequately prepared. Too many people make the mistake of rushing out to buy a scope before they are prepared, with lots of enthusiasm and high expectations...
The Seven Biggest Mistakes Made in Teaching Science
In this article, I am going to share with you some of the common mistakes that educators often make. If you’ve fallen prey to one or more of these, it simply means that no one told you about them yet. Once you know, you can then focus on solutions. Or, perhaps you’ll find that you are already on track, and this may reaffirm that you are headed in the right direction...
Easy Crystal Experiments You Can Share With Your Kids
There are crystals everywhere – in the form of salt, sugar, sand, diamonds, quartz… and more! If you add something for the crystals to cling to, like a rock or a stick, crystals can now grow...
Air Pressure Experiments
Try these ten air pressure experiments to mystify your kids using stuff from around the house...
Movies: A Resource for Homeschooling Parents
Each year the movie industry makes some very valuable films that can be used to teach children. Over the last 70 years, these films have accumulated into a national cultural treasure...
Simple Science
Help children develop a love for science, or nurture their already-growing interest, with these simple experiments...
Germ Warfare
Knowing my interest, and tolerating it exceptionally well, my friend Kelly, the homeschool mom who coordinates my kids' science club, asked me to present a unit on microbiology this spring. Imagine my delight at being asked to share the Gospel of Food Safety with seven impressionable children! I found many resources to tap, and put together a loosely structured unit that began with hand washing, then moved to safe food handling, and then into kitchen sanitation...
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Supercharged Science Free Science Videos - Ever felt challenged when it comes to teaching science? By special arrangement with Supercharged Science, we have a free collection of experiments and activities from a special science program (including videos and readings) for you to download. Aurora Lipper of Supercharged Science has been kind enough to write several very popular science articles on TheHomeSchoolMom and she has created a remarkable solution to the challenge that homeschoolers face when teaching science. Her K-12 e-Science online science curriculum is a totally fun and exciting curriculum that guides kids step-by-step through science lessons and activities using video instruction combined with lots of hands-on activities and experiments. (Y, M, O, T)
Things To Do Science Cards - Teresa Bondora at How To Teach Science has put together this PDF download with science "To Do" cards. Print them on cardstock and cut them out for a ready stack of hands on science ideas. (t)
Learn Genetics - The University of Utah has an online resource to help make the science of genetics easy for everyone to understand. The two parts, Learn Genetics and Teach Genetics, are for students and teachers respectively. The site makes extensive use of Flash technology to provide an interactive genetics learning resource. From the website: (O, T)
Hunkin's Experiments - Cool cartoons that will have you experimenting with food, light, sound, clothes, and a whole lot more!! Hundreds of cartoon experiments from cartoonist, broadcaster and engineer Tim Hunkin. (Y, M)
Steve Spangler Science - In addition to supplying just about any science resource you can imagine, this website has a large selection of experiments (with pictures of the processes) on a wide variety of topics. This man makes science fun! See Teacher Training on the website to attend one of his seminars. (Y, M, O, T)
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