For this week’s Fun Friday post, I thought you might like these links to Scientist Paper Dolls, offered by Mad Art Lab. All are free to print out, color, and “re-mix” at home 🙂 Albert Einstein Jane Goodall Ada Lovelace Nikola Tesla I think it would be neat for the kids to be assigned one … Read more
Yesterday, before we went to the hair salon, I told my daughter to “bring your crayons.” She looked at me with one raised eyebrow. She is ten, and doesn’t really “color” anymore. “It’s a surprise,” I said. While I was getting my hair colored, so was the two-dimensional young lady on one of the coloring … Read more
It could be my imagination, but it seemed to me that there was a sudden influx of food-related posts on the various blogs I read this week. I collected a few of them to share with you for my Fun Friday post today. I’m not sure how this relates to education, really. Sometimes I just … Read more
For today’s Fun Friday post, I am sharing a video I originally found on The Kid Should See This. I must admit that I’ve always found it fascinating to watch domino chain reactions, but never really thought about the physics involved. While I was grabbing the embed code for this video, I noticed quite a … Read more
It’s Fun Friday, and I want to share with you an augmented reality app that I saw demonstrated at ISTE this week by Hall Davidson. The app, IMAG-N-O-TRON: “The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore,” is designed to accompany the picture book of the same title. You may remember that I shared with you … Read more
You know what Excel is, right? That wonderful Microsoft product for creating spreadsheets has been around quite awhile. It’s quite useful for calculating totals and making graphs – and for making beautiful artwork. For today’s Fun Friday post, I want to share with you the masterpieces of Tatsuo Horiuchi, a 73-year-old man who uses a … Read more