Educational Tools
Science Night at the School
Our local grade school just held a science night. We go to all the nights, math, science, art night! Art night the parking lot is packed! Not so for math and science. Art night the kids preform and their items are on display whereas math and science night include...
Traveling during School: Pull out of school?
We travel for conferences off and on and have always enjoyed taking our boys. We always try to include lots of educational activities, but we also have included fun too! My favorite is to look for what museums are in the area and any sites that tie into historical...
Limiting Camera Usage (IPhone) – Protecting your Child
On your iPhone - or your child's device, there are a lot of settings you can change and options to limit apps! As kids get older or even with my youngest using features like in-app purchases (and who hasn't accidently hit a link once in a while and had to...
Hidden Apps – spying on your child 2.0
How to find hidden apps on your child's device. One the local cases of kid's sending pics on their device included kids using an app that looked like a calculator app. Another popular method for kid's to share pics and information in secret is to hide apps on their...
Grow a Prehistoric Creature! (Kit)
Grow your own prehistoric creature was a kit I found recently. I remember these kits from when I was a kid also. The kit contains a type of shrimp eggs and some food for as they get a little bigger. Ours included a container and some sand for the bottom of the...
Spy on your Children’s Tech Use?
I was in a meeting yesterday that mentioned a business in town that makes their primary product to spy on your child. They do it at your request... and say it's to protect your child from exploitation. As a parent of three boys, two that have were teens, what I...
Cursive needed?
Is cursive necessary? My husband and I go back and forth on it. I actually even use the script font sometimes on my computer. Part of that though is the fact that my handwriting is really bad. I suspect we all want to eliminate the things that we aren't personally...
Geodes
Our most recent activity to try was to break geodes... My youngest and I found a kit and decided to give it a try. Our kit came with two geode rocks and a hammer. For safety we found a pair of goggles to use to protect our eyes and went out to the driveway. The...
Personal Robot
For the holiday we thought a Mecanoid robot would be fun. I stalked the black Friday sales and found the big one for sale at a good price. My little one had thought they looked fun when he noticed one at the store, but by the time Christmas came around he had quit...
Subscribe to The Newsletter
Tech Ed 4
Kids
, Want to Contribute? Donations, join our board or Contribute articles…
