So, What Caused the Fish Kill?
Emily Sanders is a typical seventh grader – reluctant to see the summer end, she is dealing with BFF drama with her friend Leanne as she heads back to school in her small Virginia town and discovers...
View ArticleA Little Frog Work: You Don’t Need a PhD to Make a Scientific Discovery
Photo credit: USGS At our house, a trip down the hill to the pond is always prefaced by the announcement that we are “doing a little frog work.” It’s a reference to Russell Hoban’s Best Friends for...
View ArticleMay Day: Reviving the Tradition of May Baskets
When we were growing up in the Midwest, we filled paper cups with popcorn and candy and put them on the front steps of our friends’ houses. Then we rang the doorbell and ran away, sometimes watching...
View ArticleTake Me to the River: Marion Stoddart Proves That One Person Can Make a...
Dyes and paper sludge from local mills decimated the Nashua River in the mid-20th century. Image Courtesy the Nashua River Watershed Association Archives. Rivers are a vital part of nature – and...
View ArticleMake Your Own Watershed Moment: Ten Local Organization that are Looking Out...
Nashua River, May 2013 Photo credit: stcampbell Cleaning the river doesn’t just mean removing the polluters and taking pollution out of the water, it means restoring the ecosystems in the surrounding...
View ArticleOnce Thought Extinct, the Lahontan Cutthroat Trout Are Back
The beautiful, and resurgent, Lahotan Cutthroat Trout We love happy endings. A once-plentiful western sport fish has been brought back from near-extinction (no, it’s not a zombie, although with a name...
View ArticleMiddle School Service Project: Helping, Planting, Learning
Earlier this week Tumblehome Talks went on a service project trip with a group of middle schoolers in a local city. The mission: plant a garden at a homeless shelter for families with young children....
View ArticleHappy Mother’s Day from Tumblehome Talks
Four fox kits wait patiently for their mother on a spring morning. Happy Mother’s Day, everyone!
View ArticleLessons Plans: Ten Sites to Help You Create an Outdoor Classroom
Chatting with some teachers we know, we asked how the kids are doing now that spring is here. “Antsy,” was the universal reply. Maybe it’s time to take the classroom outside. Depending on where you...
View ArticleAre You Watching the Alaskan Volcanoes? Take Our Volcano Quiz!
Pavlof volcano at 10,500 feet.Photo credit Brandon Williams and the Alaska Volcano Observatory CNN reported this morning that two Alaska volcanoes are on “orange alert” after lava flows were sighted....
View ArticleHelp the Kepler Spacecraft Complete its Mission with Zooniverse’s Planet Hunters
NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered two new planetary systems that include three super-Earth-size planets in the “habitable zone.” Image courtesy of NASA NASA’s planet-hunting Kepler Spacecraft is...
View ArticleHappy 214th Birthday to Mary Anning, Trailblazing Paleontologist
Mary Anning (1799-1847) Happy Birthday to Mary Anning (1799-1847) a fossil collector and paleontologist from Great Britain who not only made significant discoveries, she is thought to have developed a...
View ArticleGoing with Your Gut – Scientists are Trying to Understanding the Role of...
Sometimes getting dirty is good. Bacteria isn’t all bad, and some doctors and scientists worry that America’s penchant for hand sanitizers and antibacterial cleaners might be killing off too many of...
View ArticleHappy 105th Birthday to John Bardeen (1908-1991), two-time Nobel Laureate in...
John Bardeen postage stampImage credit: USPS Today is the birthday of John Bardeen, one of a handful of scientists who revolutionized the computer industry in the mid-20th century. He was the first...
View ArticleWildlife in the Backyard? Proceed with caution…
Photo credit: Russ Campbell The more humans expand our turf, the more likely the animals will want to share. Sometimes it works – we have foxes in the back yard, and they keep our chipmunk population...
View ArticleThe Humbling Power of Tornadoes
Guest post by Michael Erb, author of Kelvin McCloud and the Seaside Storm, and Tumblehome Learning’s resident weather expert. Last week, a tornado struck the town of Moore, Oklahoma, killing 24 people...
View ArticleLet’s Get Kids Moving in School: Physical Education is Not a Recess From...
The May 2013 recommendations from the National Institute of Medicine (IOM) agree with what many teachers and parents have been saying all along – physical movement every day not only lessens the threat...
View ArticleWeekend Guest: a Gray Tree Frog
It’s a good thing we looked before we sat down because this gray tree frog was relaxing on our weathered adirondack chair. Happy Friday, everyone.
View ArticleThe Buzz About Bees: A Tumblehome Quiz
A bumble bee collects nectar Summer’s fast approaching and the pollinators are out in full force. Test your knowledge with our bee quiz (scroll down for answers)! 1. True or False? Charles Darwin used...
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