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Following on from Se7en Easy Science Notebook Ideas… here come Se7en easy Activities to get the observational juices flowing:

Plants - Flower Pressing: My kids love this there is something magical about hiding a flower in a press for a couple of days and out it comes in all its splendor. 

And if you don’t have a [...]

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It’s Thursday and How Se7en Do Science carries on with Science Observation and Nature Note booking.
Obviously all these note booking ideas can be spread across the range of observational material, but I had to start somewhere… so I spread them through our list of se7en things we observe.
This is basically a list of [...]

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We work in our Nature Notebooks about twice a week. I am glad to report that if I get busy with things domestic, then my kids will haul out their books and seek stuff out themselves. If we are having a grumbly day and I put everything aside and do this first - instead of [...]

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I know I have been promising a Science Journal Post for a while… but so much to blog and so little time. I managed to write this epic last week and then lost it in a freakish delete kind of way and was just too disheartened to look at it again. That should teach [...]

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I started writing about Nature Notebooks and before you could blink it was several posts long… My previous post was the first one: Se7en of the Best Science NoteBook Inspirations.
I call my kids The Naturalists when they are busy nature notebooking, it gives the process a status above the usual  just scrabbling about in the [...]

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The Latest Craze:
These have taken over our house and can be found guarding the entrance way, hidden under beds, lurking on book shelves and so on…

Big or small: we make them all.

Here’s how: you need some river stones, some white-out and a black permanent marker.

Then your rock needs: A bed, a blanket, a leash and [...]

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Technically this isn’t our spot… we have these wonderful friends that live in the country side, and remarkably don’t seem to mind us (all of us) coming over to stay for a couple of days - every so often…
They live in the country.

There are a few beasts roaming around.

But the main purpose and goal of [...]

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