Elemental Science Blog

The extras are optional. They are not an essential key to teaching science, so why should you even bother with them in the first place?

In short, the extras spice things up and keep your student interested in learning about science.

Why does your stomach growl? Burly Scav, one of the local experts from our anatomy leg, has come by today to share the answer with us!

Should you use a living book as a spine or as a supplement? Come see how to use living books along with questions to help you determine-spine or supplement.

Studies have shown that the act of writing down information or taking notes increases a person’s ability to remember that data.

Keeping a record gives our students another chance to interact with the information. It provides them another touch-point that helps to firmly affix the material into their minds.

Blaine Sassafras here! Today, I’m going to share with you a mind-blowing short story about how a living book once saved the world.

Science is more than experiments, there are principles that the students also need to know. At its core, science is a combination of facts and applications.

We need to teach our students the facts that have been proven to be true. We also need to provide them with an awareness of the theories that scientists are still studying.

As we gradually build their knowledge base over time, we provide the students with a knowledge base for further discovery.

Often we look at living books and nature study as the fun extras of science education, but can you really use them to teach science?

We generally hear the word “experiments” used for all types of hands-on scientific tests. So, I wanted to explain what I mean by the term. Here’s my definition:

A hands-on scientific test gives your student a chance to see, practice, test, or learn about a principle, or principles, in science.

Here are the five main types of scientific tests I regularly recommend using with your students:

Here at Sassafras Science headquarters Blaine and I get to try out lots of science stuff. Today, we are sharing what we think of the palm-sized microscope.

Fiona McRay has come by the Sassafras Science blog today to share the difference between gymnosperm vs. angiosperm plants!

I love living books. These books bring a subject to life in a way that no textbook can.

Living books hold the students’ interest and engage them with the information they are learning in a way that the students will not easily forget. We use them as often as we can in our homeschool—in history, grammar, math, and of course, science!