Last week, the Free-Ride offspring and I used our Cell Project kit from Galaxy Goo to build some three-dimensional models of animal cells out of clay.
Category Archives: Kids and science
Checking in with the silkmoths.
Overheard at Casa Free-Ride:
Dr. Free-Ride’s better half: Hey, some of the silkmoths are mating already!
Elder offspring: With each other?
Savor that moment of stunned silence!
Friday Sprog Blogging: summer reading recommendations.
The Free-Ride offspring are almost at the end of another school year, so we thought this would be a good time for them to think about some summer reading recommendations. Each of them chose two favorite books that have something to do with science. Below, they offer their kid-to-kid reviews.
An emerging story from the Free-Ride silkworm colony.
Three weeks after the first cocoon was built, the first of the intrepid Free-Ride silk moths have emerged.
Friday Sprog Blogging: silkworm reports from the field.
We’re going on three weeks since the first of the Free-Ride silkworms made a cocoon.
So far, there have been no signs of anyone trying to get out. So we’ll have to wait a while yet before we witness the miracle of life (or of silkmoths bumping bug uglies, depending on your perspective).
In the meantime, we’ve heard reports from the field about other silkworms that came home from school.
Friday Sprog Blogging: science fair wrap-up.
Since the school science fair is safely behind us, we can give you a peek at the projects the Free-Ride offspring presented. (We couldn’t do this prior to the science fair without running the risk that the sprogs would be accused of lifting their projects from a blog post.)
Here’s the elder Free-Ride offspring’s project board (or at least the central panel of it):
News, both happy and wistful.
The happy news and the wistful news concern separate matters, though.
First, the happy news:
The news from the science fair workshop.
Science fair projects are due Tuesday morning. Can you guess what we’re doing today?
Friday Sprog Blogging: silkworm math.
The Free-Ride offspring have been using the silkworms as a springboard for discussions of math as well as biology.
We started with 16 silkworms hatched from eggs that came home last June. They were joined, a couple weeks after they hatched, by another 15 silkworms brought home from the science classroom at school.
Friday Sprog Blogging: silkworms grow up so fast!
You may recall our dispatch last weekend when the largest of the Free-Ride silkworms indicated their readiness to pupate.
They didn’t figure it out right away.