The European eelpout, also known as the viviparous eelpout (Zoarces viviparus), also known as the, viviparous blenny actually suckles its young like a mammal. It is also called the Mother of eels as it gives live birth, unlike its multitude of its fish cousins. Viviparous, in regard to animals, means development of the embryo inside [...]
Your grade school / elementary age children have a natural curiosity about the weather, so why not spend some time teaching them about it? It’s especially helpful if you create an activity that is heavy in visual excitement. One idea that fits the description: Having the kids create their own weather chart. To do this, [...]
Want to really get your elementary kids interested in learning about sea mammals such as whales and walruses? Then teach about blubber! If you’re not familiar with the term, it’s nothing so disgusting as it sounds. Blubber is the part of the sea mammals that keeps them warm. In fact, before you start this experiment, [...]
Want a fun way to teach your elementary kids about mammals? Here’s a plan of teaching tips that your class will find entertaining and you will know is educational. To do this, you’ll need: 1) several pictures of mammals 2) index cards 3) books or websites about mammals, and 4) some mammal take-home sheets Once [...]
When it’s time to teach your elementary kids about oceans and sea life, it’s a great idea to decorate your classroom in an ocean theme. There are lots of ways of doing this. Here are a few favorite ones: Give the children a preview of the types of sea creatures that they’ll be learning about [...]
The early fall weeks of the new school year are a good time to teach your elementary students about the birds that live around them. This is the time of the year when the birds that are still around, are looking for shelter and for something to eat. That gives your kids the opportunity to [...]
No need to try to generate excitement with elementary students about space, the solar system and planets. They already have a natural curiosity about these things, thanks to an abundance of science fiction in the media. Here are a great way to capitalize on this excitement and to teach them the truth about our solar [...]
Can you imagine being 4.5 billion years old? That is the age of the rare 52.8 kilogram meteorite chunk that is being investigated at the Royal Ontario Museum this week by Kimberly Tait, the museum’s curator, and the ROM research team. The meteorite is about the size of a school packsack, and it was found in [...]
For learners to become lifelong learners and well-rounded happy people in society, it is important for us to work with them. Finding innovative ways of teaching that will produce effective results is a challenge that every teacher faces in the classroom. Integrating learning with games simply makes teaching and learning fun. In some cases where [...]
The 8.8-magnitude Chilean earthquake released so much energy that it may have slightly shortened the length of the Earth’s day, a NASA scientist says… …The JPL computer model suggests that the length of the Earth day may have been shortened by 1.26 millionths of a second. The change in the length of the day came [...]