Archimedes Notebook

A couple weeks ago I posted a review of  Charlotte the Scientist is Squished,   - so I thought it would be fun to do some experiments using...

Charlotte the Scientist is Squished by Camille Andros; illus by Brianne Farley 40 pages; ages 4-7 Clarion Books, 2017 themes: invest...

Things That Float and Things That Don't by David Adler; illus. by Anna Raff 32 pages; ages 5 - 9 Holiday House, 2013 Last week we...

This time of year the trees are "bare bones". Except for maybe the beech trees, which hold onto their leaves as long as they can...

The world looks different depending on how you look at it. Today, see how your back yard (or garden or park or...) looks from the perspec...

Where have our native 9-spotted ladybugs gone? They are the state bug of New York, but you probably won't see one in your garden. Instea...

One of the neat things about science is that you can walk out your back door and learn something new. One fall my kids dug through the compo...