Warnings of Smart Phone Photos Posing Privacy Risks is True
There have been many posts on Facebook and other social networks about the dangers of posting pictures of your children can inform the general public of the exact location of your children.
No matter if you are an extremely cautious parent…
Easing Back to School Stress – Tips for Teachers
Teachers are some of the most creative people out there. If you disagree, just visit Teachers Pay Teachers or Pinterest. Both community sites are overflowing with classroom, lesson, hand-out, activity and organization ideas from teachers themselves.…
Back to School Blog Hop with Kid Blogger Network and We Teach
We are honored to be a part of the Kid Blogger Network's Back to School blog hop. It may not be all about science, but it is time to celebrate the return to the classroom and learning for the next nine months. This blog hop includes some of…
Easing Back to School Stress – Tips for Parents
By Blog Editor Susan Wells
The stress of back to school usually starts in our house as the end of July nears, and school supply lists arrive with registration packets. My kids start worrying about losing the later bedtimes, non-stop play dates…
Best Science and Educational YouTube Channels
Steve Spangler Science has an incredible following on our three YouTube channels - The Spangler Effect, Sick Science! Experiments and Spangler Science TV. Our video team is dedicated to bring the best experiments and science programming to our…
Texas High School Student Gives His History Teacher a Lesson
A video of Duncanville High School student Jeff Bliss has gone viral after a classmate recorded his rant in the classroom last week. Bliss is an 18-year-old sophomore who returned to 10th grade after dropping out. He says he realized the importance…
Teaching Then and Now – How Have Things Changed?
By Blog Editor Susan Wells
I recently discovered a fun downloadable from the very popular Teachers Pay Teachers site. This printable listed the rules for school marms or teachers in 1872. Educator and blogger Barbara Evans from It's About…
Jedi Training – Use the Force & Build Your Own Lightsaber
WARNING: This blog is an April Fool's Joke
Have you always wanted to build your own lightsaber and fight the forces of evil? Forget the old Jedi Mind Meld trick. That's for amateurs (and presidents.) You need what all Wookies, Ewoks, Vulcans…
Inside Winter Wonderland – A Christmas Village Covered in Insta-Snow
Becky I. from California shared pictures of her Christmas village with us. She uses Insta-Snow and sprinkles it all over her Christmas village. Insta-Snow fluffs and feels like real snow. It is perfect for creating an indoor winter wonderland.…
Thank a Teacher Day – December 17, 2012
As the horrific events of Friday, December 14th unfolded, we all felt helpless and angry. Angry that someone would walk into a school and take the lives of children and the educators who not only taught them but protected them to the end.
As…