The Sun Salutation sequences are a great way to wake up your body at any time of day. Here's how to do all three.
Keep your crafty kids busy with this super easy project that uses things you probably already have at home! Salt paintings are so fun and we can show you how to make them super vibrant!
The Sun Salutation sequences are a great way to wake up your body at any time of day. Here's how to do all three.
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"No one will play with me" he said with tears rolling down his cheeks. He seems so confused by this strange occurrence, he thought going to preschool would mean lots of friends to play with.
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Learn how to make a kaleidoscope in this fun STEM/science activity and craft for kids. It’s such a fun way to explore light, reflections, and symmetry! Follow our Science for Kids Pinterest board! *This post was originally published 2/2/16 and has since been updated. Last week I made these super fun kaleidoscopes with my …
Spin Art Are you searching for a colorful and engaging activity that can be enjoyed by kids of all ages? Look no further than spin art! This exciting craft involves using a salad spinner and some paint to create stunning and one-of-a-kind designs that are sure to impress. In this post, we'll guide you through
Most people get so hung-up with their physical bodies, the chakras, etc. within this body, that they are not aware that this just forms one single entity, within a much vaster whole. First of …
The Sun Salutation sequences are a great way to wake up your body at any time of day. Here's how to do all three.
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I just love this color changing flowers science experiment! It is really easy to do and the kids love watching the flowers change color. We think it is the perfect science activity for spring! I even created printable recording sheets that kids in preschool and early elementary can use to show their observations.
Color wheel Kids teaching kids colors is learning activity. Colour wheel project for toddlers is recycleable, inexpensive craft for montessori & preschool.
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Lab: Determining the Amount of Vitamin C in Fruit Juices I have been doing this lab every year for a long, long time. I always enjoy it, and so do my students. I often do this lab with my biology students when teaching about nutrition and digestion, but my favorite use of this lab is with my chemistry classes. This lab is perfect to introduce the idea of titrations, equivalents, and as a review of dimensional analysis. In this experiment the student will use a lab procedure known as a titration to determine the amount of Vitamin C found in a 6 ounce serving of various fruit juices. I most often use orange juice, pineapple juice, and apple juice. A titration is the controlled addition and measurement of the amount of a solution of known concentration required to react completely with a measured amount of a solution of unknown concentration. Titration provides a means of determining the chemically equivalent amounts of two substances. The materials list is short and consists of items found in almost all labs..... no fancy equipment required! You will need: Spot plate, Thin stemmed or microtip Beral pipets (or medicine droppers), White paper for background, Ascorbic acid standard solution, Apple juice, Orange juice, Pineapple juice, Starch solution, Iodine solution and Plastic Toothpick (stirrer). In order to determine the amount of Vitamin C in the fruit juice, the student must first do a titration using a vitamin C (ascorbic acid) solution of known concentration. An iodine/starch complex is used so that a color change can be detected. The number of drops of iodine added will be used to determine the amount of Vitamin C present in the juice. When ascorbic acid (Vitamin C) comes into contact with iodine, it is oxidized to form dehydroascorbic acid. When Vitamin C and iodine are in solution together, they will form iodide. As iodine is added during the titration, iodide will continue to be formed until there is no more Vitamin C left in the solution. At this point, iodine becomes present in the solution and the starch turns a blue-black color. The starch is used as an indicator because it turns black in the presence of iodine, but not for iodide. The amount of iodine that is added during the titration can be used to indicate the amount of Vitamin C present in the fruit juice. Set up for the lab is quick and easy, and does not take a lot of advance preparation. This lab is available in my TpT store and can be viewed here: Determining the Amount of Vitamin C in Fruit Juices.
I know I seem to say this about every math concept I blog about but I LOVE FRACTIONS. Well, the first grade version of fractions :) ...
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These past few months (while it's been too hot to walk in the afternoons) I've started to get long evening walks into my daily routine. When he's home, Paul puts Ellerie down to sleep and around that time, I slip...
If you have a child that has trouble controlling their temper, you know exactly how hard it can be to calm them down. These 10 Sensory Hacks are perfect!
I recently developed a slight obsession with Shrinky Dinks. It was one of my favorite crafting activities as a child, and now as a mom, my daughter is having fun with it too. If you’ve never used it, it’s basically thin sheets of plastic that you can cut and color and then bake in the oven, […]
As more and more research comes out about the power of Growth Mindset and more and more people are leaning towards this line of thinking (heck, even my District is getting on board...they talked about it at a training I went to over the summer!), I figured that this would be as good a time as any to teach my students about their own brains and mindset. So I began my first week of school with a few lessons that really set a great tone for my students. To begin, I wanted something tangible and hands-on for my students to experience. So I searched online and found this lesson here. In a nutshell, I folded some paper in a crazy figure (that didn't actually look all crazy...until I tried to make it...go to the blog for exact instructions) and told the students they needed to recreate it. I had them get into groups of 7-8 students, put the figure in the middle and gave them each the exact same piece of paper I used. There were only two rules: They could not touch the folded paper and they could not have a second piece of paper. Most of the students got right to it. As they were working, I walked around with a clipboard and wrote down everything that I was hearing in the groups. At the beginning, I heard things like: This is easy. Look, we just fold it this way and then that. Let me get my scissors and we can all just cut it. Hmmm....I wonder how she did that. Can you just show me what you are doing? Then, as time went on and recreating the folded paper wasn't as easy as they thought, the narrative started to change. I started to hear: Wait, what? This isn't going to work. I can't get this. What did you do? Seriously, she had to use tape. How did she get that part? Let's only do one paper at a time in case we make a mistake. This was also the time when I started to see some kids just sit back and watch. They stopped trying altogether and just let everyone else experiment. I also noticed some kids taking charge completely and not letting others have opinions. Then, towards the end, I heard: This is impossible. I give up. I just can't do this. What on earth did she do? She used magic. After about 10 minutes of working, I called them all together again (no one was able to fold it correctly), I showed the students what they said. It was a bit eye-opening for them to see that some just quit so early on or that they declared the task impossible. Clearly it wasn't, as I had just folded the paper. They just wanted me to tell them the answer. This then lead into a nice discussion about the basic principles of growth mindset. That you have to keep going and trying. That your brain was meant to learn. So I passed out a quiz that I got from Angela Watson of the Cornerstone for Teachers. (she has a whole Growth Mindset pack that is really useful) They took the quiz, which asks questions about whether students think they can learn and grow or if they were just born that way. Then, we watched a video that Angela links from the Khan Academy about the fact that our brains were born to learn. We wrote down many ideas from the video, the biggest being that failure = growing. That REALLY stuck with them. I then asked the students to write down all of the words they could think of that pertained to their idea of what it means that "you were born to learn." The more important words, in their opinion, were to be larger than the less important words. Effectively, they were making a free form word cloud. I then took their picture as if they were screwing in a lightbulb, glued it onto the word cloud they created, and using tissue paper, they formed a "lightbulb" above their hand. All in all, this was a fabulous way to introduce the idea of growth mindset to my students. This entire process took two days to complete, but it was well worth it. The students continue to make connections to that first video from Khan Academy and refer to the idea of "failure = growing" still. I am also finding that there is just a much more positive tone in class because of it. I can't wait to continue on with future lessons. Have you delved into growth mindset? What are your experiences?
The past few years I’ve had the opportunity to teach a course entirely through project based learning. Our local university approached a couple of schools in our district and asked us if we were interested in teaching a cross-curricular PBL program where our grade 12 students can earn college credits. Ummmm…. heck yeah! Basically, the ... Read more
Dale Heisinger's Orcas Island, Washington, workshop isn't much bigger than the half of the two-car garage where he used to work. But his new 16x24' shop is so much better.
In 1899, Sigmund Freud explored the unconscious and was one of the first psychologists to ever study the subject. He even write a book about his findings known as The Interpretation of Dreams to explain the unconscious to the public. In 1903,...
