An Astronomical Occurrence Worthy of Waking Your Kids 🌌
Autumn is the best time to take your kids out to look at the awe of the aurora borealis, or the northern lights!
Science
A collection of 8 posts
Inspire 4th-Dimensional Thinking with These Awesome Time Travel Books 🕔📚🕤
Thank the time-lords, there are children's picture books about Back to the Future and Doctor Who! Introduce your young kids to time travel while they are still too young to watch!
Catch and Release Field Biology for Children 🦋 🐸
There are many benefits to letting your kids catch bugs and small animals: cementing their scientific tendencies, learning about nature, patience, persistence, and more!
Teaching Through Song 🎵
I can't think of a better way to engrain information into a human's brain than through song. How would any of us have ever learned the alphabet without music?
A Fictionalization of the Many Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics ⚛️
I recently read another pretty nerdy novel to my 8 and 9 year olds. As a physicist, even the title "The Many Worlds of Albie Bright" intrigued me.
Encouraging nerdy discussions with "Have Space Suit - Will Travel" 📖
For the last couple months, I've been reading a really awesome novel to my 8.2 and 9.6 year olds called "Have Space Suit - Will Travel" by Robert Heinlein. We recently finished the book and I wanted to share a few thoughts on educating your kids by reading to them.
Pre-bedtime City Astronomy ✨
Last week my 8.2 year old noticed a bright light in the sky outside through the window. So we all jumped up and ran outside to see what it was.
Awesome Space Videos for Kids!
I have always loved outer-space as far back as I can remember. So recently, when a friend asked if I knew of any cool videos related to outer space that kids might enjoy (and that ideally they could learn something from), I couldn't resist writing it up into this post!
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