If your Tweeps have been hashtagging about the same things mine have today, there’s a good chance you’ve already seen this video from the European Union: http://youtu.be/oZtMmt5rC6g Ummm … yeah. As science outreach, this would never have worked on a younger time-slice of me. But maybe I’m not the target audience. In the interest of […]
A little early this year, the elder Free-Ride offspring wrote these “sci-kus” for science class. They’re like haikus, except with a few more syllables per line (7-9-7* rather than 5-7-5), because the names of geological periods require more syllables. * * * * * Cambrian oceans were full Of sponges, trilobites, and snails Invertebrate paradise […]
As I mentioned on the Twitters, when, upon my return from ScienceOnline 2012, my family members hit me with the question, “What did you get me?” they were thrilled that the answer included science-y watercolors by Michele Banks (who, by the way, has a show ongoing). My favorite is this cute phage, not least because […]
An image from the elder Free-Ride offspring: Hug a Tarantula. They Appreciate it Too. So far at ScienceOnline 2012 I have not noticed any tarantulas, let alone sized them up for hugging. Should you encounter a tarantula in your immediate environment, use your own judgment on the hugs.
Yes, it’s been a while. This week, I was able to have enough of a conversation with the elder Free-Ride offspring to discover a homework assignment that looked … a lot like a conversation about science. In this case, it’s a conversation between the elder Free-Ride offspring (“Me”) and a chloroplast (“Chloroplast”). Big ups to […]
The science fair happened, and the younger Free-Ride offspring’s project board is now home. (The teachers are still judging and grading the sixth grade projects, which means that the elder Free-Ride offspring’s project board is still at school.) Here, in pictures, are the highlights of the younger Free-Ride offspring’s project: A straightforward descriptive title. (The […]
As a fund-raiser for the youth soccer league to which we belong, the younger Free-Ride offspring’s soccer team has been selling chocolate bars. Among other things, this means that each morning the younger Free-Ride offspring has packed up a selection of chocolate bars to bring into school, and each afternoon has returned with a stack […]
We’re less than two weeks out from our elementary school science fair, which means that both Free-Ride offspring are in serious data collection mode. As they look ahead to having enough data to present and “analyze” (you lose points if there’s not some kind of computing of a mean, preferably accompanied by bar graphs — […]
The younger Free-Ride offspring and Dr. Free-Ride’s better half have been studying aikido for some years now, at the same dojo, although not in the same class. This means that the younger Free-Ride offspring’s class is getting off the mat as Dr. Free-Ride’s better half’s class is getting onto it, which frequently leads to playful […]
It’s been another busy week, but I managed to intercept (on their path from backpack to recycling bin) a couple pages of what looks to be school work in which the elder Free-Ride offspring has illustrated various concepts from ecology in drawings. A closer look at the concepts (with a wee bit of commentary) below.