Category: history
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How do ocean currents move and how does this affect navigation?
One of the weird random facts I learned about Benjamin Franklin is that he learned how the ocean currents move and charted the Atlantic Current. If Benjamin Franklin is ever the subject on Jeopardy, I’m set. Since that’s not likely to happen, I set the kids to an ocean currents experiment and had lots of…
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Making a mummy
We started studying Egypt this week in our homeschool history lesson, and what do you think of when you think of Egypt, but mummies. So, taking a page from the Story of the World Ancient History lessons, we’re making a mummy. Warning, not for the easily grossed out, or germ-o-phobes. Hi, Future Ticia 2025 here,…
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Pirates booklist
Arrr! We all love pirates, or we like the theory of pirates, but if we think about it too much, we start to realize pirates are not the fun romanticized idea, so let’s just go with ARRR! I was looking up some books on something else when I saw a book I vaguely remembered reading…
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STEM challenge: Design a Greek Temple
There are certain design styles that are eternal. They come back into style over and over again, and one of the most eternal is the Greek columns. You constantly see them brought back whenever a society wants to show they are mature and need to be taken seriously. Look at all of the European capitals…
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Design a Siege Tower
When we talk about technology we always think in terms of digital items. We think something that involves a screen most likely because that’s what technology has been recently. But thousands of years ago technological advances were much simpler it was the inclined plane or the screw. When the Assyrian Empire was around they created…