Reading Time: 9 minutes Kicking Class, Image: Sophie Brown/RAAM Games This post was sponsored by RAAM Games. Who will come out on top over four years of high school? Whether your goal is straight As or being the most popular kid in class, Kicking Class will have you competing for the scholarship of your dreams. […]
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The Panda Planner is a gratitude, productivity, and goal setting planner wrapped up into one.
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Spark an interest in Spanish with books! Ignite an interest in languages with the book ‘Hola! Let’s Learn Spanish’ by Judy Martialay.
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A group of high school students in Australia has recreated a key ingredient in Daraprim for a fraction of the cost claimed by the company distributing it.
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To help you avoid the Parent Black List at school, I have narrowed down my parent-teacher faux pas to 3 things you should not say to your kid’s new teacher
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A couple of days ago, a user on Reddit posted photos of a Wonder Woman lunchbox with a letter allegedly sent from a school to the parents of the child who brought said lunchbox to school. The story was immediately picked up and recirculated across the internet. Every site that posted it simply pointed back to the same story on another site, all of which come back down to a single post on Reddit that links to images on Imgur, posted by the same person.
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An eight-year-old child is told reading on a bus is dangerous as books have sharp corners; the school board reacts with exceptional lethargy and redirects responsibility for its own policy.
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The police were called to my daughter’s school at naptime on Friday…
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Here are 7 reasons why volunteering at the school library is a fun, fantastic way to give your time.
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Not everyone learns in the same way. Those who are quiet in class are still learning, often even moreso than if they are speaking.
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The first day of school can be daunting, but what if you’re the littlest Valkyrie, just hoping to make a friend? Check out Edda: A Little Valkyrie’s First Day of School.
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When your child goes to kindergarten this year, what kind of herd are they joining and do you have a right to know?
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The future is now: How to teach your kid to use Google Docs for school reports
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GeekMom Sarah rocks out and geeks out as a tour stop from Foreigner, along with their outreach efforts for music education, rekindles memories of her days in the school choir.
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Whether they were born on Tatooine or Krypton, play Grand Theft Auto V or Cloudberry Kingdom, or watch Walking Dead or True Blood, factions from these diverse but often opposing universes, posing with their fake laser blasters and purple-tinted wigs at conventions, manage to get along, at least for one weekend. Why can’t the rest of us?
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If you’re looking for a versatile backpack for your high school/college student (or even a day-to-day carryall for your own commute) I heartily recommend the ECBC Hercules.
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About 10 days prior to our trip to buy a new house in Colorado last week, I found out about an update for the realtor.com mobile app service that I’ve relied on to send me customized search results for the areas in which we’re looking to live. This update would make realtor.com to be the first mobile real estate search capability to fully integrate school information in their app.
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My son has autism. He’s the same as he’s always been, I’m still getting used to it.
Continue ReadingStudents who average more study hours do better in school. But a study published last week in the journal Child Development shows that students who stay awake to study more than their average — i.e. to cram — up …
Continue ReadingEveryone has had that dream that wakes you up in the middle of the night. You know the one, where you suddenly remember that you are not only still enrolled in school, but it is also finals time, and …
Continue ReadingAfter some 104 days of summer vacation, Max and Nora are back in school. One of the big things that my wife Allison and I are concerned about is the fact that most schools are “breeder reactors” for coughs, sniffles, …
Continue ReadingWriting teachers Amy Ludwig VanDerwater and Barry Lane have teamed up to remind parents and policymakers that children are much more than a score on a standardized test.
Continue ReadingAs a woman in technology, I hear a lot about the lack of women in the field. While I was in college I noticed that I was usually the only female in the class. My teachers treated me the same and the guys never cared. After I graduated and I started attending events like Microsoft’s annual Tech Ed, I realized just how much of a minority we are. The thing that keeps catching my attention, though, is how much of an issue people want to make out of it.
Continue ReadingOur oldest son, who’s in 3rd grade, brought home the classic “build a volcano and make it explode” class project. We started with several items that were essentially recycled: an empty soda bottle, a leftover piece of plywood for the base, a cardboard box and our old phone book. In class, the volcano was subjected to the classic baking soda and vinegar experiment to simulate an explosion. Our son told us that his volcano had the most powerful explosion in the class.
Continue ReadingI had planned to put a video together about “choosing a school for your children” to test out TED-Ed. However, my eight-year-old daughter caught wind of what I was doing and wanted to get in on the act. To cut …
Continue ReadingFresh off of watching the season finale of “Fringe” last Friday, I happened upon an amazing discovery: FOX and the Science Olympiad have teamed up to create lesson plans to help students explore the real science behind some of the …
Continue ReadingNot long after my children returned to public school after two-and-a-half years of homeschooling, it started. At this point, my older son was in 8th grade and so gym meant changing in a locker room with the other kids in his class. A couple of his peers developed a habit of coming up behind my […]
Continue ReadingLately, my wife and I have been staring slack-jawed at elementary school options, little ropes of drool hanging zombie-like from the corners of our mouths – and so we’ve decided to cede our choice to the numbers. But when you …
Continue ReadingThe season of the school science fair is fast approaching. How do you pick a project? How much should you help your kids? And when do you put on the brakes and keep them from accidentally blowing up the neighborhood? Nicole Wakelin is joined by fellow GeekMoms and science aficionados Patricia Vollmer and Helene McLaughlin to help […]
Continue ReadingFollowing close on the heels of his brilliantly insane plot to rule the world, now Vordak the Incomprehensible is teaching kids all over the country (or the world, muahahaha!) how to rule their respective schools. With the same hilarity and …
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