What’s a Fractal?
Jack Frost visited my car this week. Jack left me a particularly beautiful rendition of a fractal. So beautiful that I HAD to take a picture of it. Below is…
Using Chemistry Methods in the Kitchen
We use science everywhere, we just tend not to think about it. If you like to cook you may wonder why your cake, bread, casserole did not turn out as…
The Battle for Iron
You all know that iron is an essential nutrient in our body, it is also the most common nutritional deficiency in the United States. Iron is a very important part…
Stipends still available for “Talk To Me” STEM training
Through My Window is excited to announce the official paperback publication of Talk to Me, a full length young adult mystery novel that introduces upper elementary and middle school students…
What Happened to Women in Computer Science?
Some of you are aware that periodically Google will offer little coding projects on their home search page. I like to partake in those,they are actually fun. The program that…
Kids React to Old Cameras
This is a wonderful video to watch with your students (has a learning component). The youtube video also has links to other reaction videos.
Fountain of Youth
Ever heard of a hydra? Somewhere in the back of my mind I remembered studying this in biology. Hydra's were always interesting because you could multiply them quite easily. All…
45,000 year old leg bone found
This little story is amazing because it is the OLDEST human bone found. Granted it was only one femur (leg bone) but it proved invaluable for what its genetics told us.
Found in a river in western Siberia in 2008, it was turned over to paleontologists who believed it to be a few thousand years old. When they sent the DNA for testing they found a hidden secret in this old bone. If you’d like to find out what THEY found out you can listen here or read the article here.
Science, Science and more Science Experiments!
“Gooey”, “Awesome”, “Oozing”…
…these are just some of the words to describe the three book series by Janice VanCleave. A former science teacher, VanCleave is the award winning author of 26 educational activity books. (more…)
Dying Languages
It seems that extinction is not limited to living things-languages can cease to exist. It is forecast that approximately half of the estimated 7000 languages spoken around the world today…