What is a food chain or a food web? What is a carnivore, herbivore, omnivore or scavenger? To answer question like these I made a set of food web science definition cards for my students. Each card has a picture of an organism to represent each term along with a simple, easy to understand definition. See the sample picture below. It ...

What is a food chain or a food web? What is a carnivore, herbivore, omnivore or scavenger? To answer question like these I made a set of food web science definition cards for my students. Each card has a picture of an organism to represent each term along with a simple, easy to understand definition. See the sample picture below. It ...

Thursday was an exciting day for the second graders at Cheerful School.  Yes, it was the day for the Egg Drop!  An egg drop in case you aren't familiar with it is a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) project.  For our egg drop project, the second grade students had to design a container to hold and protect a raw chicken's egg from ...

Between sports, music lessons, homework, and more sports, things have been a little crazy around here.  We were just wrapping up a time intensive select basketball season, when my son came home from school with a plan.  ''Hey, Mom, We decided that we're going to sign up for the science fair at school.'' Keep in mind that everything for the ...

Hop on over to my blog to see how to make a really easy model that helps students learn the properties of the states of matter (solid, liquid, and gas). Click on my button to visit!

Regular readers among you will have noticed that I use Purpose Games a lot, and, no, in case you're wondering, I don't earn anything from them. I use them because the tagging games are relatively easy to create, they're free, I haven't found any better, and they suit my purpose (no pun intended) just fine. If you're having students play the games ...

The largely unknown tiny Canarian island of El Hierro will soon become anything but that. By next year, it will become the first island in the world to obtain 100% of its energy needs from renewable energy. A combination of wind and hydroelectrical power will supply electricity to its 11,000 residents and its floating population of foreign workers ...

Why do we say an electric shaver but an electrical engineer? Although most native speakers use electric, electrical and electronic correctly most of the time, chances are that they will find it hard to tell you why! So, it's hardly surprising that non-native speakers sometimes make mistakes on these. Electric refers to things that use ...

Purpose Games have regular tournaments and some of my games are being featured in two of their current ones: Advanced Science @ Not About Speed and The Great Human Anatomy. Games featured in Advanced Science are: Ecosystems, Laboratory Equipment while The Muscular System is featured in Human Anatomy. Are you game for it? You'd need to register ...