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Tammy and I figured out a potentially cheap way to make our own little plankton tow which we could use to make monthly or biweekly plankton community surveys. Real plankton tow nets run $150+ for a small one (I’m hoping we can “buy” one off a pair of retiring professors). We [...]
Last week we went to Providence for two science conferences. I had fun. I sat in on some really neat talks. One was about lobster larvae and another was about Alaskan oyster farming. I ate mussels. I worked behind the front desk. We went to the beach party and had fun playing all the games [...]
Last week was very busy for us here. I volunteered to help out one of the people at the University who was in charge of organizing and putting on the NSA conference and the Benthic Ecology Meeting which were held back to back in Providence. Ostensibly I was supposed to be there primarily for IT [...]
There is a meme out there for naming women scientists. Well with Johann’s scientists cards and his love of science history as well as science, we felt like playing along. So here are some of the scientists that we came up with, most of them off the top of our heads:
Lise Meitner - Physics
Shirley Jackson [...]
I discovered that Johann loves solving code puzzles as much as I do, so I’ve been using that to make repeating the multiplication tables and studying spelling words more interesting. I did several puzzles using addition problems to provide the numbers in the legend, which, when used, could translate the spelling words. When he expressed [...]
Ok…if you want to find out what a Caprellid is without the family spin skip to the bottom.
One of the family’s big presents this year was a nice zoom dissecting microscope with a set of 50 metazoan and 50 plant biology classroom slides. Johann and Tammy have been going through a few prepared slides per [...]
Chapter 3 of Johann’s Physics book covers the basic concepts of potential and kinetic energy. The teacher’s manual gives examples to get kids thinking about kinetic energy (the energy of motion) in a way they can relate to: a fast moving car, a basketball sitting still on the floor, a fast moving toddler versus a [...]
Since Johann is officially in second grade, we have been practicing penmanship. He’s been asking me to teach him cursive, but first he needs to refine his printing. One thing everyone needs to learn is not to put the letters that hang down above the line. I’ve told Johann many times to let the tails [...]
Miss Suzanne told us about the Walter Wick exhibit at the New Britain Museum of Art, which ran from September to November. We finally made the time to go on Veterans Day. Trying to find the place was challenging, since so many roads in CT are simply not labeled. Quite often you will be on [...]
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On the Surface of Things: Images of the Extraordinary in Science by Felice Frankel
Marine Reserves: A Guide to Science, Design, and Use by Jack Sobel
