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Archimedes Notebook: June 2014
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Hands-on science exploration for children and their parents. Friday, June 27, 2014. Into the Meadow with Mouse. The Mouse and the Meadow. 32 pages; ages 3-8. Dawn Publications, 2014. One day a little meadow mouse was crawling through a field. Staring in amazement at the wonders it revealed. The grassy open meadow put his courage to the test,. For he had never left the comfort of his mother's nest.". Take a field trip to a meadow. How do you find a meadow? One square foot of meadow. And you'll need to get...
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Archimedes Notebook: High Tide for Horseshoe Crabs & author interview
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Hands-on science exploration for children and their parents. Friday, May 8, 2015. High Tide for Horseshoe Crabs and author interview. High Tide for Horseshoe Crabs. By Lisa Kahn Schnell; illus by Alan Marks. 40 pages; ages 3-7. I love this book beginning with the endpages - which are scientific illustrations (with labels) of the dorsal and ventral side of a horseshoe crab (plus pedipalp details). And then the title page, where you see a horseshoe crab scuttling up a beach. And then. If you live near the ...
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Archimedes Notebook: May 2014
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Hands-on science exploration for children and their parents. Friday, May 30, 2014. Dinosaur Week - How Big Were Dinosaurs? How Big Were Dinosaurs? 32 pages; ages 6-9. Roaring Brook Press, 2013. Nonfiction, dinosaurs, comparisons. 8220;Stalking, running, stomping, crushing. When we think of dinosaurs we think of huge monsters,” writes Lita Judge. “But how big were dinosaurs REALLY? What I like about this book:. It’s fun. Judge uses size comparisons to relate cool facts about dinosaurs, and combi...Judge k...
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Archimedes Notebook: Writing Science
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Hands-on science exploration for children and their parents. After studying learning and behavior in ants, bees and cockroaches I put everything I learned to the test by teaching children. My science-teaching career includes a handful of years in the high school classroom, a dozen years of doing homeschooling science on the kitchen counter and in the garden, and since then a number of science and writing workshops for schools and homeschool groups. 8221; (Sept/Oct 2000) and “ Caterpillar Secrets. Really ...
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Archimedes Notebook: September 2014
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Hands-on science exploration for children and their parents. Friday, September 26, 2014. Plants Feed the Animals. David Hill/ creative commons. Last week I featured a review of Plants Feed Me. Mary Holland writes about how birds and others eat the acorns in her wonderful field guide, Naturally Curious. Turkeys, on the other hand, swallow acorns whole and their gizzard grinds them up later. Squirrels and chipmunks tend to peel the shells into strips and leave middens - piles of acorn shells on logs or roc...
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Archimedes Notebook: Book Reviews
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Hands-on science exploration for children and their parents. Sometimes it's tough to find good books to support our children's curiosity. Fortunately, lots of writers are passionate about science and nature - and their books bring those subjects to life for young children. I review children's books on nature and science- technology- engineering- math every other month in Ithaca Child. In the "Alexander's Library" column). I also review books on this blog once a month, as part of STEM Friday. Books about ...
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Archimedes Notebook: March 2015
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Hands-on science exploration for children and their parents. Friday, March 27, 2015. By Rita Gray; illus. by Kenard Pak. 32 pages; ages 3-8. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015. Nature, nonfiction, ecology. Flowers are calling a little black bear. No, not a bear! They're calling a butterfly to dip from the air. What I really like:. Check out flower shapes. Butterflies like to land on flowers that provide a platform, like Queen Anne's Lace. Can you find other plants like that in your neighborhood? Perfect pic...
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Archimedes Notebook: December 2014
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Hands-on science exploration for children and their parents. Wednesday, December 31, 2014. Wednesday, December 24, 2014. I love winter holidays - there's candles and greenery and presents. But what do you do with all the ribbons and wrappings? So this season let the environment around you inspire some recycled art. It doesn't matter whether it's the trees outside your window, the lost ladybug wandering around the kitchen counter, or the perfect snowflake stuck to the screen. Friday, December 19, 2014.
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Experiment Archive – Growing With Science Blog
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Growing With Science Blog. Bug of the Week Archive. Science Books For Kids. Seed of the Week Archive. Below is a summary of the science experiment or activity blog posts, organized by topic. Classification of Living Things. A Fungus Among Us. Making a spore print. What's Under a Rock? Plant Science Unit Lessons:. Preface: inspired by the. Introduction: What is a plant? What is a Seed? Plant Science in Space. Roots, leaves, stems, etc.). Inside Plants (Leaf and cell anatomy). Plant Families II. Trees.
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Bug of the Week – Growing With Science Blog
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Growing With Science Blog. Bug of the Week Archive. Science Books For Kids. Seed of the Week Archive. Bug of the Week. Bug of the Week: Cicada Nymph Exoskeletons. August 17, 2016. Insects can interfere with exercise. For example, these light-colored objects on the dark bark of a mesquite caught my eye and I had to run home and grab my camera. Do you recognize it? Here, look closer. It's the exoskeleton shed by a cicada turning from a nymph into an adult. Can you see the covering where the eyes were?
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