Learn how to use water pressure and air pressure to make water defy gravity and flow UP into a fountain — without the use of a pump!
Hands-On History: Gravity-Powered Fountain
Walking Robot Project & The Physics of Easter Island
For thousands of years, the ingenuity of human beings has allowed us to do the seemingly impossible. Check out these two examples of how physics and a little creative thinking can have almost magical results!
Hands-On History: Snakes and Ladders
If you enjoyed senet, you’ll love the ancient board game we play during our India unit: Snakes and Ladders!! Actually, if you loved senet, which is a game of skill and strategy, you might HATE snakes and ladders. Cold, capricious,
Hands-On History: Ancient Technology
The topics we cover in ancient history may seem a bit irrelevant to some (foolish) kids, but when we use hands-on, project-based learning, we give our students a tangible, memorable connection to the material they are learning. Conveniently, most ancient
Hands On History: Egyptian Senet
Kids just love studying ancient Egypt. I never have a hard time getting them fired up about studying pyramids and mummies, as you can see from the KWL chart my 8th graders started below: (As a side note, I always
Hands-On History: Timelines
Teaching world history in a single year provides me with some exceptional challenges. We cover so much content in such a short time that I really have to remain on track and make tough decisions about what we can and can’t
Mother Education: Read All The Things
A brief look into my own continuing education today. Our Archbishop recently sent a letter to all the schools that included some suggested reading from a chapter in Tom Wood’s How The Catholic Church Built Western Civilization. As I teach
“The Promise” for Educators
The film The Promise, which premiered at the end of April, chronicles the events of the Armenian Genocide, an often ignored episode of World War I in which 1.5 million Armenians perished under the government of the Ottoman Empire. If you
Teaching Econ
Here’s a great new resource for teaching your kids economics. The Tuttle Twins and the Miraculous Pencil follows Ethan and Emily Tuttle on a class field trip to a pencil factory. They learn about how products we consider simple, everyday objects are
Geometry Across the Curriculum
I use geometric drawing across the curriculum in several projects. Below is an in-progress shot of an 8th-grader’s design for a stained glass window, an assignment from my medieval history unit that incorporates symbolism along with geometric design. In world