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23+ Halloween Science Experiments for Preschool & Elementary Students

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Read on to discover fun, easy, and spooky Halloween science experiments for preschool kids and elementary students. Have fun doing Halloween-themed science activities this October! I still remember when we lived in Texas and we carved pumpkins for Halloween, making some pretty fun Jack o' Lanterns. It's a pretty normal tradition. ...

The Best Chemistry Kits for Kids of 2019

Discover more than 20 fantastic chemistry kits! From edible candy chemistry kits to monthly chemistry kits like MEL science, this is the ultimate list of the best chemistry kits for kids. I always did well in school as a kid with straight A's frequently found on my report cards. But, that didn't mean I loved every subject. For ...

KiwiCo Atlas Crate Review: A Cool Way to Learn Geography in Your Homeschool

Read my Atlas Crate review and discover how we're using this KiwiCo Atlas Crate to learn geography in our homeschool! It helps kids learn culture and world citizenship. I always enjoyed learning geography as a kid and was pretty close to competing in our elementary school's Geography Bee (or whatever it was called). As an adult, I'm not ...

12 Homeschool-Approved Monthly Science Kits for Kids

Interested in cultivating a love of science in your kids? One or more of these monthly science kits are sure to spark his or her interest in STEM! I am a sucker for good educational subscription boxes for kids. I've tried out several of them with my preschool and early grade school-aged children. We are homeschoolers, so fun ...

Green Kid Crafts: The Crafty Way to Get Your Kids Into Science

Green Kid Crafts may be my favorite educational subscription box for kids to date. Green Kid Crafts is a highly rated monthly subscription service full of STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Mathematics) activities and experiments. As a homeschooling mom who doesn't really like science, I was so thrilled with the Green Kid Crafts box ...

Why Girls Should Know Lemons Aren’t Only for Making Lemonade

When it comes to teaching science to my kids, I come up lacking. I did okay in biology, physics, and chemistry in high school, but only because I actually studied, never because I enjoyed them very much. As we are homeschooling our kids, it worries me that I may not be the best science teacher around. With only 1 in every 1,000 girls ...

8 Homeschooler-Approved Educational Subscription Boxes

Looking for an educational subscription box for kids? The following are among the best and most popular options out there today! One of the greatest things my dad did was send me postcards in the mail. My dad was an over-the-road truck driver. He was gone the majority of the week, and occasionally for multiple weeks at a ...

24 Best Educational Apps and Websites for Kids

It's crazy that something that I do each and every day can be so hard to teach my children. But I don't remember how I learned how to read, and chances are you don't either. I was not an early education major in college. I never learned the methods of how teach reading. I only recently learned what a CVC word is (consonant-verb-consonant like ...