This week we are going to do straight up trivia.  I found three boxes at my house in our game drawer.  The topics are math, movies, and history.  Let's see who wins in your house.  Let me know in the comments below. Feel free to research answers for questions you do...

On this post you will find weekly Exemplars, also known as Kiki Problems.  These differentiated, problem-solving tasks promote critical thinking and reasoning, and ask you to practice and apply mathematical ways of thinking to real-world issues. The puzzles are...

Hey Mike, "What day is today?' Camel, "Hump daaaayyyyys!" Wednesdays is dedicated to doing something, wacky, witty and/or wondrous. This week 5/4 I'm trying an activity I used to do as a child, Shrinky Dinks. It was a kit that had images you colored, placed in the...

My looney sister believes in aliens. I’ve tried convincing her that there are no aliens in our solar system, but she just doesn’t believe me! “Prove it,” she says. I’m so tired of her talking about aliens that I just might! I sneak into the other room and grab dad’s...

This week (5/4) let's head to Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.  The first Friday in May is dedicated to National Space Day.  So let's go behind the scenes with Discovery Education as Boeing prepares for the next launch of the Starliner/CST-100 spacecraft.   Can...