Preparing pumpkin for pie can be a fall sensory experience your children look forward to every year. Two ambitious to preschoole...

A crisp breeze rustles the golden leaves just outside the window, distracting your students from today's lesson.    On days like...

On a lovely day in late spring, moms were chatting, and children playing when "THUD". The sickening sound of a bird hitting a wi...

The neighborhood sirens scream. I grab the baby and call my kids into the hallway, checking my phone to figure out just how far away th...

Multiplication practice from a nature art approach. Use pine cones to make math fun. At 1:00 pm, a young student stares out the wind...

"We need to hang a pumpkin from the tree."  On a recent bright fall day we had some friends visit. They kindly brought u...

Cooking is one of those hands-on activities that naturally employs all sorts of STEM  skills: science as you observe change, technology (e...

Last week, I posted a lesson idea for sharpening students understanding of multiplication and estimation using leaves .  This post i...

I have heard that the leaves are almost over up north, but locally, our trees are just starting to show their colors.  Students love any...