Integrated Science at Home. Science - Home. Online | The Diving Spudmarine. As a kid with two older brothers, I knew how important it was to be the first to crack open a new box of cereal and sift through the contents for the toy inside. I remember fishing out a plastic toy submarine and I absolutely loved it. When you filled the submarine’s compartment with baking powder and dropped it in a container of water, the submarine would—seemingly magically—dive and surface. When I came across Bob Knetzger’s SpudMarine project in MAKE Volume 26, these fond memories flooded back to me.
While the heyday of cereal box toys may be over, you can still make your own diving submarine toy out of a potato. It can take some trial and error, but once you find the perfect ratio of wood and tuber, you can pack it with baking powder (not baking soda) and watch it go. Subscribe to the MAKE Podcast in iTunes, download the m4v video directly, or watch it on YouTube and Vimeo. Matt Richardson mattr@makezine.commattrichardson.com Related. Online : "Little Drifters," art boats made from natural materials.
This just showed up in our inbox moments ago, and man does it ever look like a fun and creative way to spend a lazy summer afternoon. And it’d make a perfect MAKEcation project! Booooooom, the Vancouver arts community and blog, headed up by Jeff Hamada, hosted this event at Trout Lake in Vancouver last month. The idea was to build little boats, exclusively out of found natural materials (leaves, twigs, flowers, grass, etc), put them in the lake, and watch them drift away. Love the variety in the designs. If you decide to build and launch little drifters of your own, take some photos and upload them to the MAKE Flickr pool. (More images after the jump and plenty more on the following links) [Thanks, Lenny!] Little Drifters / Vancouver (gallery on Booooooom) Little Drifters set sail in Vancouver (article in Vancouver Sun) Gareth Branwyn Gareth Branwyn is a freelancer writer and the former Editorial Director of Maker Media.
Related. Beginning Unschooling: Some ideas. DAILY: Just Add Light and Stir— a daily blog with a quote, a photo and a ink to cheer or inspire you When I was beginning to change my parenting behavior, I would memorize a phrase to get me started in the direction I wanted to go. When I was worried about answering people's concerns that we were taking our son out of school, I memorized, "We're going to try this and see how it goes.
" When I wanted to respond to my children without bossiness but still tell them my concerns, I memorized, "I'm not sure about this, but let's think about it together. " And so on. It was my version of carrying something in my wallet. Back in the day, these are the things I would have told my brand new unschooling self: Kids want to learn. Get on eBay or go to thrift stores and garage sales and try to find and buy all the toys and books you loved as a kid and the ones you always wanted and never got. Dy/dan. The ABCs of Unschooling. The ABCs of UnschoolingBy Mary Gold Okay, you've tried the prepackaged curriculum and it's just not working.
What is wrong here? Where is the joy? Where is the excitement about learning that homeschooling is supposed to bring? Unschooling sounds great, but there's a problem. It's the same with unschooling. Obviously each family's answer will be different. A: arts & crafts, animals, acrobatics, acting, alphabet magnets, art galleries, art classes, Anime, archery, allowance, A&E, Animal Planet, American Girl, Aerospace Museums B: board games, books, books on tape, bike riding, baby-sitting, balloon animals, Brain Quest, basketball, baking, building, beading, braiding, bubbles, Boy Scouts, baseball, bird watching, bowling, blocks, building toys, bugs D: discussions, doll making, dancing, decorating, designing, drawing, day dreaming, drumming, dogs, dinosaurs, diaries, daisy chains, Dungeons & Dragons, Discovery Channel, digging, disassembling old machines, doodling Z: zoos, zithers, Zoom. Unschooling - a Natural Education Process - Natural Living.
If you suffer with a debilitating auto immune disease you are not alone, in fact it may come as a surprise to you how often they actually occur. Auto immune disease could be considered a pandemic or plague with 1 in 12 people currently affected of which 80% are women. The book is written by Donna Nakagawa and provides practical advice for those suffering from auto immune malfunctions. Knowledge is power when it comes to dealing with any disease or affliction that the medical profession knows little about. Until recently doctors had no answers for most people suffering with auto immune problems and could offer little help and no solutions. It wasn’t until a few doctors were affected with little help from conventional medicine that progress toward a treatment plan was made. Currently there is little information provided to doctors about the particulars of auto immune diseases and studies are ongoing as I write this article.
The Auto Immune Epidemic. My Homeschool Plan - Homeroom.