This must have been the year of the cardinals in my backyard. On my frequent trips in my backyard to do garden work or feed the birds, I occasionally came […]
Updates to DonnaYoung.org: September – April 2012
This is a repeat of the recently sent yahoo group update, except with pictures. Hello, It has been a long time since I’ve sent an update to this group. I […]
Updates to DY: December 10, 2009 – January 30, 2010
Nature Journal Tabs – How to Make the Dividers Finally! All that cutting and pasting we did in kindergarten will be used once again and for such a worthy cause—the […]
12-16 Grade Keeper with Lab WU
One of my online friends, Michelle, who teaches a lab science co-op mentioned using my Grades & Attendance grader keeper for her class. That prompted me to make 12-16, a […]
Life of a Lady Beetle
The photographs here show the life of Lady Beetles – Coleoptera: Coccinellidae. If you see any of the bugs that are pictured above and below in your trees, bushes, or […]
Pine Cone Weather
Weather.com predicts rain. The pine cone agrees. Pine cones close when the air becomes moist to protect the seeds.
Dandelion
Today I had flowers on my mind. If my digital camera worked with batteries, this post would have looked different. I would have posted a few images of the wild […]
Exploring Creation with Physical Science Ex. 9.1
My son used Exploring Creation with Physical Science during the year 2000-2001. The images on this page show what we did with experiment 9.1. If you want to read more […]
Exploring Creation with Physical Science Ex. 3.2
My son used Exploring Creation with Physical Science during his 8th grade year (2000-2001) and we all enjoyed the experiments from that book. Recently I went through some old photographs […]
A Tree Study
Choose a tree or two to observe. If the tree is deciduous, make an accurate drawing of the branch pattern. What does the bark look like? Can you make a […]
Raspberry Mold
Lurking in the furthest corner of my refrigerator was a jar of homemade raspberry sauce. If I were to guess the age of this particular sauce, I would say that […]
Sunflower
While working in the garden yesterday, I found a sunflower bloom on the ground. I do not know why it fell off the stem. I brought the sunflower inside to […]
Moth Emerged and I’m Off
Continued from Green Caterpillar. This is a combo entry, more below. After 34 days, the moth finally emerged from its pupa on May 27. The moth is plain and shades […]
May-07 Donnayoung.org Updates
There is not a lot to report although I feel like I have been busy. Leah Mitchell redid (tweaked) her Exploring Creation with General Science co-op schedule. The schedule is […]
Spined Soldier Bug
May 4th while outside looking at the different kinds of bees that were visiting the white clover in my backyard, I happened upon a cloverleaf with a cluster of bug […]
