Send Your Brain to the Gym With the Brain Gym Card Deck
Just as we exercise our bodies, we need to exercise our minds. This card set will help you do just that.
Continue ReadingJust as we exercise our bodies, we need to exercise our minds. This card set will help you do just that.
Continue ReadingThinkFun’s new MESH scoring system focuses on kids’ mental, emotional, and social health through games and play.
Continue ReadingWelcome back to the world of bookwandering in the fifth and penultimate Pages & Co novel from Anna James, The Treehouse Library.
Continue ReadingBy studying Microraptors’ last meals, paleontologists have discovered new clues about Cretaceous ecosystems.
Continue ReadingMy family visited ‘Beyond Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience’ over the holidays, for a beautifully serene and surreal art adventure.
Continue ReadingA touring exhibit gave us an up-close look at Michelangelo’s Renaissance masterpieces, his Sistine Chapel frescoes.
Continue ReadingAll the best bits from our PAX Aus 2022 panel—how to keep Gameschooling part of your family game time after Lockdown Learning.
Continue ReadingIf you love some primary sources (or replicas of them) along with your classic novels, this new version of ‘Persuasion’ will be the one for you.
Continue ReadingGeekMom Elizabeth, a former teacher, discusses ADHD accommodations for middle and high school students and what parents should know to help students be successful.
Continue ReadingThroughout June, GeekMom celebrates Pride Month with lots of LGBTQ content. Today’s book review is ‘Outrageous!’ By Paul Baker.
Continue ReadingLearn about women from the past few hundred years of history through these fabulous biographical picture books.
Continue ReadingKing Alfred of the Anglo-Saxons is known as “The Great.” What did he do to earn this title, and did he really deserve it?
Continue ReadingEven the simplest, littlest, and seemingly most boring things can have a big impact on the world, both in practical and artistic ways.
Continue ReadingLearn about inspiring women as you do a puzzle or play a trivia game.
Continue ReadingThe Moon and Earth are close neighbors, but they look very different. Why isn’t the Earth cratered like the Moon? There are five main reasons, many of which are interconnected.
Continue ReadingA couple years ago, I wrote an article about how scientists were using the scientific method (yes, the one you learned about in school) in order to study the Enceladus ice plumes, which were discovered when Cassini was doing its fly-bys of several of Saturn’s moons. Well, they are still at it, and learning even more about this fascinating place in our solar system.
Continue ReadingThings aren’t looking great for Margaret Beaufort and her new baby Henry Tudor, as seen in the last installment of this series following a young noblewoman on her path through the politics of medieval England. Find out what happens in this last installment of “Margaret Beaufort: The Pain, Piety, and Politics of a Medieval Mother.”
Continue ReadingHow did Margaret Beaufort go from daughter of a tainted family to mother of a king? Find out in the first of a three-part series!
Continue ReadingAll geeks, regardless of political persuasion, appreciate intellectual freedom, right? So speak up!
Continue ReadingLearn about your favorite historical writers and artists in these collections of correspondence.
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