Simple Machines is a Math and Science Hands On (M.A.S.H.) kit designed to teach students in grades 2-3 about machinery and work. Work is scientifically defined as the result of a force moving an object through a distance. With Simple Machines, students will explore six simple machines: the inclined plane, the lever, the pulley, the screw,…
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Learning about Genetics
This week’s activities explore the fascinating study of inherited traits that affect us all, Genetics. If you thought you already knew everything about your family members by staying at home with them for weeks on end, guess again. After this week’s activities, you will know each other on a genetic level! Online Videos: Use these…
New Curriculum Kit: Forces of Flight
Best for grades 5-6, Forces of Flight is a Math and Science Hands-On (M.A.S.H.) kit that explores the forces that allows objects to stay aloft. Teachers and parents can use this kit to teach students about the four forces of flight. By dropping eggs and paper helicopters, constructing different parachutes, and blowing up and on balloons,…
What is this? Space Week
Is this the world’s most disgusting pizza? Some weird mold growth? Maybe it’s a yucky rash that someone has… No, this is space week! Of course it’s space pizza… (Photo from nasa.gov).
Katherine Esau
Katherine Esau was a botanist who grew up in Russia and Germany before immigrating to the U.S. in 1922. During her time in the U.S., Esau worked at a company studying sugar beet reactions to a virus before going to school at the University of California, Davis to obtain her doctorate. Esau stayed at UCD…