Sink and float are one of the top science activities for preschool and kindergarten kids. I've seriously had 3 year olds stick with this for 50 minutes.
I’m a prairie kid who loves research. I have a Master’s in economics with a focus on public programs, labour and education. Long before that, I did my undergrad in physics & English with a math minor.
Besides my resume, you’ll find this page full of sewing projects, the odd published poem, and stories about Canadian science.
A note about the blog title: in math and physics, the prefix eigen means one's own. It comes from the german, but mostly I always liked thinking about a particle's eigenvalues, and thought I might apply the same thought to my excursions.
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Sink and float are one of the top science activities for preschool and kindergarten kids. I've seriously had 3 year olds stick with this for 50 minutes.
A challenge to make a CD hovercraft results in engineering troubleshooting and a simple air pressure demo.
Building catapults takes nothing more than popsicle sticks and elastics and a bit of invention.