It’s early on a Friday morning, and I’m standing in front of a crowd of eight-year-olds holding a fistful of deadcrayfish. The mudbugs are a biological supply company purchase sorted into sealed sandwich bags – the subject and substrate for the science project I’ve volunteered to lead...
It’s early on a Friday morning, and I’m standing in front of a crowd of eight-year-olds holding a fistful of deadcrayfish. The mudbugs are a biological supply company purchase sorted into sealed sandwich bags – the subject and substrate for the science project I’ve volunteered to lead...
How Things Work: Great STEM Books for 8-12 Year Olds, recommended by Our Children's Editor Read 1 The Way Things Work by David Macaulay Read 2 How Was That Built? The Stories Behind Awesome Structures Roma Agrawal, Katie Hickey (illustrator) ...
That magical time of the year when your hemisphere reaches as close to thesunas it can go, yearning for a burning hug that's only slightly cooled by aloe vera. After a day at the beach with nothing more than one application of SPF 15, you might be cursing our planet for tipping you ...
The crates sent each month seem to be of the right complexity for my child 6-year old, which is very important. You want them to learn stuff but not at the cost of overwhelming them. So, projects of the right complexity are always a good thing. ...
A second study replicated this finding in 6- and 8-year-olds for the divergent thinking task and for 6-year-olds on the drawing task. Results are highly suggestive of a relation between magical thinking and creativity, but these findings need to be replicated before strong conclusions can be...
How many other 82 year olds have an iPhone, I ask you? Mum, I will never forget that it was you who inspired me to reach for the stars, you who put that first precious sprinkle of stardust into each of your children’s hands, so that we too could aspire to be people who make ...
Homework is on their mind; education hardly ends when school does.UPennresearchers found in a recentstudythat 13-18 year olds have one chief concern on their mind: homework. Parents, as shown in anothersurvey, feel that they cannot even help their children with homework! If the schools and...
Enter the College of Commerce, University of Saskatchewan. I was a 32-year keen-to-learn single mom amidst a bunch of business-driven 18-year olds. Yet I found brains that I never knew I had. I got scholarships and bursaries. I graduated with distinction and as one of the first graduat...
Forty year olds today can scarcely remember the last Soviet leader, Gorbachev. He was an interesting figure (maybe Google him). At the beginning of the 1990s the system he fronted collapsed in an unceremonious face plant. I visited the Soviet Union three times before it collapsed into history...