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Science Enrichment at Home and After School. Tumblehome Talks is the blog for Tumblehome Learning. This is the place where we talk about exciting things in the world of in Science Technology Engineering and Math (STEM), and where we can share new discoveries, new ideas and new ways of learning at home and after school. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). Notify me of new comments via email. Bloggers like ...
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The Buzz About Bees: A Tumblehome Quiz | Tumblehome Talks
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Science Enrichment at Home and After School. The Buzz About Bees: A Tumblehome Quiz. A bumble bee collects nectar. Summer’s fast approaching and the pollinators are out in full force. Test your knowledge with our bee quiz (scroll down for answers)! Charles Darwin used bees to prove his theory of Natural Selection. 2 Bees pollinate the vast majority of food crops. Which of these crops is NOT pollinated by bees or insects? Honeybees are not a native species of the U.S. D) all of the above. B) about 7,500.
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Close Encounter: Sea Turtle Stranding in Florida | Tumblehome Talks
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Science Enrichment at Home and After School. Close Encounter: Sea Turtle Stranding in Florida. Stranded sea turtle at Coco Beach, Florida. Photo credit: Alex Fichera. Like many marine species, sea turtle populations are endangered because habitats, nesting grounds and food supply are polluted and destroyed by human activities. Many organizations and volunteers worldwide are working to save stranded turtles and preserve their habitats to ensure they do not become extinct. Photo Credit: Alex Fichera. Like ...
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Weekend Guest: a Gray Tree Frog | Tumblehome Talks
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Science Enrichment at Home and After School. Weekend Guest: a Gray Tree Frog. It’s a good thing we looked before we sat down because this gray tree frog. Was relaxing on our weathered adirondack chair. Happy Friday, everyone. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out. Rainy Day Activity: Snap...
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Mixing Math into Summer, While Keeping Play at the Top of the Agenda | Tumblehome Talks
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Science Enrichment at Home and After School. Mixing Math into Summer, While Keeping Play at the Top of the Agenda. Guest post by Marlene Kliman. Illustrations by Valerie Martin. In recent years, the importance of maintaining children’s academic skills over the summer has edged into the national conversation ( www.summerlearning.org. Want to help the children in your life maintain their math skills by mixing math and play this summer? Here are some time-tested ways to get started:. For instance, use paper...
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Rainy Day Activity: Snapshot Serengeti has a new batch of photos! | Tumblehome Talks
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Science Enrichment at Home and After School. Rainy Day Activity: Snapshot Serengeti has a new batch of photos! It wasn’t too hard to spot and identify this hartebeest. We got an e-mail last week from Zooniverse alerting us to Season 5: a new crop of photos that need identifying over at Snapshot Serengeti. As we outlined in an earlier post, getting started with Zooniverse. If pretty easy. First, go to the Zooniverse. Site, then scroll down and click on the Snapshot Serengeti. Leave a Reply Cancel reply.
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Discovery! Triceratops Family Unearthed in Wyoming | Tumblehome Talks
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Science Enrichment at Home and After School. Triceratops Family Unearthed in Wyoming. Triceratops skeleton at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. The Black Hills Institute of Geological Research. And the Naturalis Biodiversity Center. Announced in May that they found three triceratops skeletons. On a ranch near Newcastle, Wyoming. The researchers, who were already in the area excavating a Tyrannosaurus rex. Were alerted to the triceratops. The bones of the largest skeleton (which is also th...
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Let’s Get Kids Moving in School: Physical Education is Not a Recess From Learning | Tumblehome Talks
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Science Enrichment at Home and After School. Let’s Get Kids Moving in School: Physical Education is Not a Recess From Learning. The May 2013 recommendations from the National Institute of Medicine. That students who exercise regularly have stronger and more consistent performance in academic learning and standardized tests. The movement shouldn’t stop with school – after school is just as important. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:.
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The Humbling Power of Tornadoes | Tumblehome Talks
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Science Enrichment at Home and After School. The Humbling Power of Tornadoes. Guest post by Michael Erb, author of Kelvin McCloud and the Seaside Storm. And Tumblehome Learning’s. Last week, a tornado struck the town of Moore, Oklahoma. The strongest tornadoes generally form in powerful storms known as supercell. But they can also produce large hail and severe tornadoes. A rotating column of air must have gusts of about 65 mph to be classified as a tornado, but winds in the strongest tornadoes can exceed...
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So, What Caused the Fish Kill? | Tumblehome Talks
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Science Enrichment at Home and After School. So, What Caused the Fish Kill? Emily Sanders is a typical seventh grader – reluctant to see the summer end, she is dealing with BFF drama with her friend Leanne as she heads back to school in her small Virginia town and discovers that, well,. Is the newest contributor to Tumblehome Learning. 8216;s collection of science adventures for middle school readers. How did she come up with the story line? Even though by the time she began to write. June 19, 2013.
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