Kitchen Pantry Science!

The Kitchen Pantry Scientist also has a great blog!

Make a flexagon!

Go HERE to make a fun flexagon toy! Amaze your family and friends, and confuse your cat!

Which one, what kind, how many, and whose...

The Periodic Table of Elements - Awesome!

Head on over to Worldstar Academy and learn about Mendeleyev and the history of the periodic table of elements! 

It's back to (home)school time! How SWEET it is!

Get some free printable cupcake wrappers/toppers and other back-to-school printables at Living Locurto! Aren't they adorable?

Head over to ChartJungle for some school/homeschool printables to help get you organized!

Go to Homeschool Views and get tips on pre-homeschool organization and more printables to help!

Check out The Homeschool Messenger for some ideas for great, healthy snack ideas with recipes and even a scheduled rotation (for those highly-organized moms!) to keep your kids from having snack burnout!

Also check out Taste of Home's web site for tasty - and, maybe, not-so-healthy - back-to-school recipes!  ;)

Where is the hope?

"Where is the hope?  I meet millions who tell me that they feel demoralized by the decay around us.  Where is the hope?  The hope that each of us has is not in who governs us or what laws are passed or what great things we do as a nation.  Our hope is in the power of God working through the hearts of people.  And that's where our hope is in this country.  That's where our hope is in life."

Chuck Colson

Amazing Cicada life cycle - Sir David Attenborough's Life in the Undergr...

When I dug up some old shrubs in the early Spring of this year, I ran across many young cicada larvae attached to the roots. Today, we had a cicada on a window screen. My girls were both horrified to look at it ("It's so uuuugly!") and fascinated to hear that this is the source of all that racket coming from the trees!

The above is a pretty good video produced by the BBC that tells about the cicadas.