Posted in Star Trek, Webkinz, pets, photographs, space by: Lisa
26 Dec
As Star Trek fans and Webkinz fans, as soon as we saw the solar space suits (a.k.a. astronaut suits) in Alyssa’s Star Challenge, we knew we had to make an Astronaut Star Trek Room. I’ve purposefully put the suits on interestingly shaped Webkinz pets — I love how the suit grows and shrinks accordingly. I [...]
Posted in Arizona, dome, photographs, so you think you know, space by: Lisa
08 Jun
I’ve recently had the opportunity to view several different craters. Looking at a crater in real life is a completely different experience than seeing photographs; go see one if you have the opportunity. Craters can be created from meteorites (comets, iron, asteroid), salt domes, or volcanoes. Can you guess which crater below [...]
Posted in space by: Lisa
03 May
If you live in the United States or Canada, check out Satellite FlyBys to see what times you can view various shuttles. In a different country? Check out this NASA site. There are lots of interesting things to see in the sky every night. Very cool!
Here are more interesting space sites:
SpaceWeather.com
JackStarGazer.com
NASA.gov
Space.com
KEO.org [...]
Posted in Unschooling, education, empowerment, mindful parenting, space, television, zen by: Lisa
02 May
This could have been titled “Are you celebrating something special today?”
Twice in one day last week I was asked something similar to the above - once by a checkout lady and the next time by a waitress. Just what was my family doing? Having fun going about our normal day-to-day activities. We [...]
Posted in Star Trek, Unschooling, Webkinz, books, empowerment, movies, religion, space, television, zen by: Lisa
19 Feb
Science Fiction, String Theory, and Star Trek
What do these have in common? God. Yes, God, with a capital G.
I’ve heard the comments directed at Trekkies: “Oh, what geeks,” and “They just dress up and live in a little pretend world, how adolescent.” How banal that Trekkies are mistreated and misunderstood so! [...]
Posted in Harry Potter, Unschooling, books, homeschooling, magic, space, writing by: Lisa
17 Feb
My Always Unschooled 11 year old daughter is, right now, writing a report. [By the time this posts, this information will be old news, but I'm still going to continue with the story in present tense.]
My daughter has been taking a weekly “Mythology of Harry Potter” class since last September. The class is run [...]