Hole in window shutter for solar microscope: Colonial Williamsburg
Last year, when I met George Wythe at the Tucker House, he mentioned a microscope at his house that received light from a hole in the window’s shutter.
Historical Sewing and Time Travels
Tag: science
Discoveries in lenses, remodels, and sewing threads
For the objective to make a slide with threads, he chose two spools from my sewing kit, red and purple.
Wow! So that’s what they look like up close!
Exploring DNA at the Witte Museum
The kids got to interact with DNA, see how it spirals, match pairs, and see all the various parts at the Witte Museum exhibit in San Antonio.
The Mystery of Alchemy Revealed
During the Dark Ages, alchemists enjoyed playing with various chemicals that created strange effects, but they had no idea what was happening or why.
Egg-ceptionally Smashing Velocity and Chasing Static Electricity
Smashing eggs and chasing balloons were some of my daughter’s fun physical science labs from Dr. Jay Wile’s textbook.
My son can’t wait to tart the series.
Engine-building with a Smithsonian kit for Science
Recently my son built a model engine from a Smithsonian science kit.
Then he watched a Magic Schoolbus episode about engines.
Using a Sextant to Measure the Height of the House
Our recent studies have been interspersed by sailors who sight the stars for navigation.
My son made a sextant to determine the height of our two story house.
Becoming Leonardo da Vinci via Nature Journaling
The art projects included in this book taught us the art of keeping nature journals, like Leonado da Vinci, for our Renaissance unit.
Assessing our first year of Classical Dialectic Studies
Except for the classical history curriculum that created more work for me than solutions, I was quite happy with our other programs.
Unlocking a Pop-Up Book for moveable Halley’s Comet
My son got super creative with his paragraph on Halley’s Comet, after studying Ancient Mesopotamia.
He created a slider and claslp for his comet pop up book.
