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There are many benefits to encouraging your child to engage in an outdoor kid activity. Any outdoor kid activity, whether it is just playing outside or engaging in a sport can be beneficial. There are so many activities that you can do with your child, from riding a bike to bird watching to rock hounding so you can make it a family activity.

Play Outside

Whether you are hiking on a trail or just hanging out in the back yard, you can create a fun outdoor kid activity and even learn something along the way. Get a book on plants and learn the names of various plants and trees as you go along. Bring along a camera and take photos of the plants that you identify so that you can make a scrapbook. In your scrapbook add an information sheet from research that you do in books or on the web.

Survivor!

This is a fun outdoor kid activity that you can do just about anywhere. Even if you can t go somewhere to camp, you can pitch a tent in the backyard to create an ambiance. Get a survival book and learn about various survival techniques. Learn how to identify poisonous plants. Create various scenarios and discuss what you would do in each situation, such as lost in the forest, trapped on a deserted island or stuck in the mountains.

Star Light Star Bright

Get a map of the constellations and take a walk outside to look at the sky. Learn how to identify various planets and constellations and talk about the history behind them. This is an outdoor kid activity that the whole family can enjoy. This outdoor kid activity can also take you indoors to the library so that you can learn about the solar system and stars. You may even want to invest in a telescope to get an even better look at the stars above you.

How does Your Garden Grow?

Gardening is an outdoor kid activity that can teach your child how to grow their own food, the responsibility of caring for a garden and the rewards of seeing plants grow as you care for them. You may want to start small with window boxes or containers and then graduate to turning up ground for a garden. Your child will learn how to weed the garden, dig and plant. You will need some flexibility for this outdoor kid activity because it may turn into an excursion to dig to China or an expedition to locate earthworms.

Pick Your own Fruit

This is outdoor fun for the entire family. Although it is seasonal, it can be a lot of fun. Find places where you can pick your own berries, such as blueberries, strawberries and blackberries. There are also places where you can pick apples, peaches and pears. The whole family can get in on this outdoor kid activity. Pick a little, eat a little and go home and make a delicious blueberry cobbler! This outdoor kid activity will not only provide tons of fun, it will also create precious memories.

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Young children love to learn. The preschool and elementary school years are a great time to build an interest in science that will last through their educational career and perhaps beyond.

Don t be intimidated by whatever knowledge you may have of science. You don t have to know it all. You don t have to be advanced in your understanding. At this level, you re promoting interest in the topic and teaching the early foundations, not doing the math. It s something you can do even if you didn t enjoy science classes yourself.

There are many simple experiments you can do from home, and most don t require anything special. You will often have the supplies you need in the kitchen, and if you don t, they are often available at your local grocery store.

Cooking can be used to help teach basic concepts. When you cook with your kids, they can help you measure things out, learning about what makes a half cup half of a cup. Simple things like that which you understand, you can teach.

There s more than that which you can do with cooking, however. You can make rock candy to show your kids how much sugar can be dissolved in water, and what happens as it collects on a string, forming crystals. You can make ice cream to talk about the freezing point and how liquids become solids.

Boiling water can be a lesson on liquids becoming gasses. Mixing baking soda with vinegar demonstrates a chemical reaction. Cream can be made into butter. Yeast makes bread rise.

These lessons do not have to stop after elementary school. You can discuss the different kinds of heat transfer (conduction, convection, radiation) and how they relate to cooking.

When you re using yeast or making crystals, don t forget the magnifying glass or microscope to take a look at the details. You can view the yeast out of the bread, then take a sample of the bread dough after it rises and see how the yeast made the bread look. You can compare crystals grown under different circumstances. Doing this and noting the details is a way to demonstrate the basics of the scientific method.

The best part about many kitchen experiments is that they can be eaten after. This is not true for every experiment, but it s not uncommon. You can also explain the various scientific aspects at different levels for different ages of children. Boiling water turns to gas for younger children, but as they get older, a discussion of what is happening, what the boiling point is and so forth becomes more appropriate.

Don t forget the great times you can have in the kitchen. It s time you get to spend having fun with your kids, exploring things you take otherwise for granted.

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Today s youth is inundated with technology. From Xboxes, TiVos, iPods and cell phones, Generation Z will be the most “connected″ generation of Digital Kids to ever to walk the planet.

After watching his twelve-year old son surf the net, text message friends, and immerse himself in technology, sales consultant and business owner Peter Hanson from the Philadelphia area had an idea. Why not harness his twelve year old s thirst for technology and redirect it towards a skill that would help him compete in the 21st century?

Although his company was doing well, his website didn t adequately portray his firm. If his son Kyle learned how to build websites, he could then hire him to redesign and update his company s site. Luckily, while surfing the web, his wife had come across a technology camp where they could send their son Kyle to learn these new skills.

So while most young boys are busy playing sports during the summer, Kyle attended iD Tech Camps and learned how to make websites pivot, jump and bounce with Flash Animation.

iD Tech Camps provides weeklong, beginner to advanced, hands-on summer technology courses for ages 7-17 at prestigious universities in 19 states. These 40 locations include Stanford, Princeton, UCLA, Columbia, Northwestern, Vassar, and Emory. During the week, students take courses in web design, digital video production, 2D and 3D video game creation, and programming &amp robotics. With small class sizes averaging only six students per instructor, students are given the attention they need to excel.

Students use industry products from tech leaders like Adobe, Macromedia, Apple, Canon, RadioShack, Wacom and AutoDesk. Besides a week of fun, these Digital Kids leave with a completed project using products which professionals use, increased tech-confidence, and a competitive edge.

“I was really proud that I created a really cool website within one week that made my instructor s jaw drop when he watched my Flash Animation morph from different shapes into a logo,” said Kyle.

With the Flash Animation Shape Tween tool, Kyle made his animation come alive. He used different colored shapes that finally morphed into his “Kyle Henson Productions” logo.

“At first it was hard, but my instructor showed me how to morph objects. I think making animations for my site was not only super fun, but really rewarding knowing that I was using the same software that professional web designers use.”

Today s challenge for parents is helping their kids learn technology that they themselves do not use or understand. They depend on school to achieve this goal, but unfortunately schools today still lag in integrating technology into the curriculum. Thomas K. Glennan and Arthur Melmed address this critical issue in their article Fostering the Use of Educational Technology: Elements of a National Strategy. “The nation s most important educational goal must be to produce learners adequately prepared for life and work in the 21st century. In 1994, U.S. schools spent about $3 billion on computer- and network-based technology. Despite all this activity, however, examples of school-wide use of technology are comparatively rare and isolated.”

iD Tech Camps addresses this pressing need and uses tech savvy role models for instructors. As role models, these college students and recent grads make learning fun and share first-hand how technology is making a positive impact. “Our philosophy is to be mentors for these Digital Kids. They are like sponges, and love to soak up this knowledge,” said Jennifer Liss, Camp Director at the iD Tech Camps where Kyle attended. “These kids can t get enough so it s incredibly inspiring for us to teach them what we ve learned in college and our professions.”

The end result is a sense of empowerment, independence and self-confidence as students learn to articulate their creativity through new ways by using technology. Often times they incorporate what they ve learned in their school projects or even start side businesses.

While Kyle is using his newly learned website design skills to help his dad improve his company s website, across the country in San Francisco ten-year-old Julian is transforming his passion for video games into a profitable business.

Julian s mom, Ellen Finnegan, also heard of iD Tech Camps and immediately enrolled her bright son in a Video Game Creation course. Her hope was to inspire Julian in technology through his passion-video games.

But Ellen never expected how far he d go. After creating his video game at camp, using the easy-to-use Multimedia Fusion, Julian didn t stop there. When he returned home, he would finish his homework quickly, and then would spend time adding more details to his game. He then began selling his game to peers. The demand was so large that this young entrepreneur expanded his sales team by hiring his eight year old sister and her friend. It worked. Now Julian is working on his third sequel due to the pent up demand.

With these Digital Kids, the sky is the limit. With both Kyle and Julian already enrolled in more courses on Programming &amp Robotics, Web Design, and Digital Video, who knows what these whiz kids will create next.

And what does Julian want to do in the future?

“Own several video game companies,” said this confident fourth grader. “If I m rich, I ll own three. If not, I ll own one.”

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Reality time is when your child can “look themselves in the mirror.” It is their time each day to take a couple of minutes for themselves - a time to reflect.

Let s be honest here. Most adults don t take this time for ourselves, how can we expect our children to do? It should be an essential part of your day and your child s. Help your child get into the habit of asking themselves one question - “Did I give my best effort to today s activities?”

There will be no grades and no one will be looking over their shoulder. It is their reality. It is important that they are honest with themselves during this period. This is their life, their goals and their success! Help them make it a habit to take a couple minutes each day to have some honest, reflective “reality time.”

You have the opportunity to shape how your child interacts with their world. The most powerful way to do this is to model the behaviors you want them to have!

Suggestions:

- Discuss the “reality time″ concept with the members of your family.

- For the next two weeks to daily you write out - Did I give my best effort to today s activities? Then spend some quiet time answering it.

- Randomly choose one day a week to discuss each family member s efforts for their day s activities.

- Model the behavior you want your child to develop.

Quote for discussion:

“I am not the smartest or the most talented person in the world, but I succeeded because I keep going, and going, and going.” -Sylvester Stallone

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Summer camps have been proven to help a child develop skills that can help him appreciate the value of independence, teamwork, hard work and friendship. As a result of this, more and more parents would like to enroll their children in these camps, which provide children with a fun and informative way to spend their summer vacation. However, as the demand for summer camps increase, so does the number of summer camps that offer their services. Given this, picking out the best summer camp for your child may prove to be a challenge. Fortunately, there are some steps you can take which can help you narrow down your search.

Things to consider

One of the first things you should consider in picking out a camp is on whether the camps you are considering sparks the interest of your child. This is very important since just like any endeavor your child will undertake, it is essential that he is interested and that he wants to do it. After narrowing down your search to the camps that your child would want to go to, you can now consider the different aspects of the camping experience that different camps offer.

If you have the time, it would be good idea to visit the camps you are considering because going to them would give you a first hand experience of what your child may be doing in these camps. Some of the most important questions you should ask include asking about the activities that campers do in the camp and asking about the facilities of the camps. Other important questions include asking about the ratio of counselors to campers, the training and experience of these counselors and on whether there are personnel that can attend to the medical needs of campers. You should also take the time to check out the food that these camps serve. In addition to these, you may also ask for references. After you have narrowed your search to about two or three camps, it would also be good to bring your child to the camp so that he can decide on which camp he likes best.

Picking out the best summer camp for your child can be a very challenging decision because it is very important that you pick a camp where your child can maximize the benefits of the summer camp experience. To help you in this search, it is always good to know the right questions to ask and to do some research, which can be very effective tools in picking out the best camp for your child.

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Under more pressure than ever to achieve, high school students often find themselves overwhelmed with increasing amounts of homework. While some high schools are guilty of assigning too much homework, there are ways of approaching the task that allow you to become more productive and efficient.

Organizing your homework assignments saves a lot of time and wasted effort. Make sure you record your assignments for each class as they are given, and then make a checklist - before you leave school for the day if possible - to make sure you have all the tools and supplies you need for each assignment, including textbooks, class notes, additional reading material from the library, etc. If you have a study hall near the end of the day, use at least a few minutes of that time to organize yourself.

Are there assignments that you believe are going to give you more trouble than others? Use your study hall time to think about those particular assignments, and either tackle them in study hall or think about some resources you can access before you leave school for the day. Maybe you need to clarify something with the teacher, or get information from one of your classmates about the assignment. Get a library pass and use your library time to gather resources for your evening s homework.

You should arrive home with everything you need to complete the evening s homework assignments. Again, organization will save you time and trouble. Wherever you do your homework, whether it s at your own desk on stretched out on the bed in your room, have all the books, notebooks, and supplies you need within easy reach.

There are a few standard tricks to approaching reading assignments. Before you start to fully read the assigned passages, glance through them. Notice the chapter titles and the interior headings and subheadings, if any. Look at all the illustrations, charts, and tables, and be sure to read all the captions. Go to the back of the chapter or subchapter to see if there are any questions if there are, read them. Then start reading the assignment in full, keeping a notebook handy. When you run across information which looks like it will help you answer the questions at the end of the passage, take notes, or at least jot down the page number as you come across relevant information. Even if you haven t been assigned the questions as homework, try to answer them, at least by jotting down a few notes on each question (chances are your teacher will use these questions in class the next day, or as the basis for future tests). Make a list of your own

Quick…what s your favorite snack?

If you answered OREOS with milk, or RITZ Crackers and cheese, or
maybe even a MOON PIE, then you just named a snack enjoyed by
millions of people the world over. But do you know how some of these
popular snack foods got their start? Many of these tasty tidbits have an
awesome history. Check out the following incredible snack facts:

THE INVENTION OF THE MOON PIE

Bet you didn t know the genuine MOON PIE is produced exclusively by
the Chattanooga Bakery in Tennessee. But no one knows for sure how
MOON PIES were invented. Supposedly, back in the early 1900 s, a
man named Earl Mitchell, Sr. (a salesman for the bakery) was visiting
one of the company stores that catered to coal miners. Mr. Mitchell
asked the miners what they would like for a new snack. They told him
they wanted something for their lunch pails - something solid that would
fill them up. When Mr. Mitchell asked the miners what size they wanted
this snack to be, one miner saw the moon rising. He put his hands up
and framed the moon. Then he said, “just this size.”

Mr. Mitchell went back to the bakery. He saw workers there coating
graham cookies with marshmallow, then putting them on the window sill
to harden. Mr. Mitchell asked them to put two of these cookies together
and coat them with chocolate, and that s how the MOON PIE was
invented! By the late 1950s, the MOON PIE was so popular it was all
the bakery had money to produce.

HOW FIG NEWTONS COOKIES GOT THEIR START

The main ingredient for this famous snack is figs, of course, since FIG
NEWTONS cookies are soft, cake-like cookies filled with a chewy fig
jam. But, the creation of these delicious sweets wasn t possible until
1891, when a special apparatus was invented just to make them. Until
then there was no way to get the fig jam into the cake or the cake around
the jam. James Henry Mitchell invented this special funnel within a
funnel. The inside funnel supplies a stream of jam. The outer funnel
produces a tube-like stream of dough, creating an endless rope of
yummy, fig-filled cookies we know as FIG NEWTONS.

RITZ CRACKERS ARRIVE ON THE SNACK SCENE

Times were tough for Americans during the Great Depression. Few
people could afford luxuries or fancy foods, but everyone wanted a great
cracker. In 1934, the National Biscuit Company (now Nabisco) tried
recipe after recipe before they developed what they knew would be the
finest, tastiest cracker on the market. They named their luxurious, but
affordable, cracker the RITZ Cracker (probably because anything
glamorous, classy, or fancy was called “ritzy” back then). It was popular
everywhere - from the most modest home to the elegant Waldorf-Astoria
Hotel, where it s still a regular feature on the menu.

THE BIRTH OF THE OREO COOKIE

The OREO cookie was born in 1912, but no one seems to know for
sure where the name came from. Since then over 362 billion of these
cream-filled chocolate wonders have been eaten, making them the
world s most famous cookie. If all 362 billion OREO cookies were
stacked on top of each other the pile would reach the moon and back
more than five times. Now that s a lot of cookies!

KOOL-AID FIRST QUENCHES AMERICA S THIRST

Did you know KOOL-AID is the official soft drink of Nebraska? KOOL-
AID was invented in Hastings, Nebraska, in 1927, by a chemist named
Edwin Perkins. As a child, Perkins developed many flavoring extracts
and perfumes. This led to his own mail-order company, which eventually
resulted in modern-day KOOL-AID. Nowadays KOOL-AID is an all
American favorite. And, more KOOL-AID is sold the week right before
and the week after the 4th of July than at any other period during the
year.

The next time someone asks you, “Quick…what s your favorite snack,”
when you give them your answer, you might also share some of these
incredible snack facts.

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the Three Angels Gourmet Co. which offers a unique line of “heavenly
gourmet mixes” online at threeangelsgourmet.com threeangelsgourmet.com, and
through gourmet food stores and gift shops across the United States.
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Do you have a 2, 3, 4 or 5 year old? Then please read this. If you introduce your child to a 2nd language now you will be giving your child a tremendous advantage in learning and life! Being exposed to a 2nd language early in life builds a foundation for success that extends way beyond just being exposed to another language. It is amazing the way a young child can absorb various information. The more educational activities they are exposed to during these early years the more the brain retains. And the introduction to a 2nd language stimulates their young minds while helping them build BRAIN POWER.

Research shows that “Younger is Better” when it comes to learning a 2nd Language. It is easier to learn 2 words for a number, color or everyday word as part of the early education process than it is for an older child who has to relearn new words. Did you teach your child how to speak English? No - they just absorb it by being exposed to English as an infant and toddler so why not Spanish in conjunction with English?

Other research shows that learning a 2nd language at an EarlyAGE results in higher standardized test scores, increased math &amp language skills and educational opportunities as well as becoming better problem solvers with eventual premier job opportunities. Everyone from the United States Postal Service to many of your local employers are requiring employees to be Spanish bilingual as a condition of employment - so let them get a “jumpstart” by introducing Spanish basics ASAP.

Why not boost your child s confidence and self esteem by getting him or her exposed to Spanish basics as soon as possible. There will never be a better time than now!

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Chemistry is an exciting subject for kids of any age, especially if you set up a natural discovery environment for them to safely explore in. Let s find out how to do this in your own home with your own kids. At the university, one of the first things you will learn about in your chemistry class is the difference between physical and chemical changes.

An example of a physical change happens when you change the shape of an object, like wadding up a piece of paper. If you light the paper wad on fire, you now have a chemical change. You are rearranging the atoms that used to be the molecules that made up the paper into other molecules, such as carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, ash, and so forth. There s an easy way to tell if you have a chemical change. If something changes color, gives off light (like the light sticks used around Halloween), or has heat absorbed (gets cold) or produces heat (gets warm). Some quick examples of physical changes include tearing cloth, rolling dough, stretching rubber bands, eating a banana, or blowing bubbles.

Let s do some experiments that demonstrate the chemical changes we ve just mentioned. The setup will look like your kitchen table covered with a plastic tablecloth. On your table will be several bottles of clear liquids and white powders along with small measuring spoons and a tray of muffin cups.

Your mission: To find the reactions that generate the most heat (exothermic), absorb the most heat (endothermic), and which are the most impressive in their reaction (the ohhhh-ahhhhh factor). NOTE: Although these chemicals are not harmful to your skin, they can cause your skin to dry out and itch. Wear gloves (latex or similar) and eye protection (safety goggles), and if you re not sure about an experiment or chemical, just don t do it.

Gather these before you start: a muffin cup baking tray, water, vinegar (acetic acid), baking soda (sodium bicarbonate), washing soda (sodium carbonate), rubbing alcohol, hydrogen peroxide, citric acid (grocery store), aluminum sulfate (”alum” in the spice section of the grocery store or in the pharmacy section of the drug store), and a clear liquid dish soap such as Ivory. Put all these items on your table.

And a head of red cabbage.

Red cabbage? Yes! Red cabbage juice has anthocyanin, which makes it an excellent indicator for these experiments. Anthocyanin is what gives leaves, stems, fruits, and flowers their colors. Did you know that certain flowers like hydrangeas turn blue in acidic soil and turn pink when transplanted to a basic soil? This next step of the experiment will help you understand why. You ll need to get the anthocyanin out of the cabbage and into a more useful form, as a liquid “indicator”.

Prepare the indicator by coarsely chopping the head of red cabbage and boiling the pieces for five minutes on the stove in a pot full of water. Carefully strain out all the pieces (use cheesecloth if you have it) and the reserved liquid is your indicator (it should be purple). When you add this indicator to different substances, you will see a color range anywhere from hot pink to tangerine orange to sunshine yellow to emerald green to ocean blue to velvet purple. Try adding drops of indicator to something acidic, such as lemon juice and see how different the color is when you add indicator to a base, like baking soda mixed with water.

Set out your liquid chemicals in easy-to-pour containers, such as water bottles (be sure to label them, as they all look the same!): alcohol, hydrogen peroxide, water, vinegar, and dish soap. (Skip the peroxide and alcohol with small kids.) Set out small bowls (or zipper bags if you re doing this with a crowd) of the powders with “scoopers” made of the tops of your water bottles: sodium bicarbonate, sodium carbonate, citric acid, ammonium nitrate, calcium chloride, and alum. The small “scoopers” regulate the amounts you need for a muffin-sized reaction.

Have your indicator in a bottle by itself. Old soy sauce bottles or other bottles with a built-in regulator that keeps the pouring to a drip is perfect. You can also use a bowl with a bulb syringe, but cross-contamination is a problem. Or not - depending if you want kids to see the effects of cross-contamination during their experiments. (The indicator bowl will continually turn different colors throughout the experiment.)

The Experiment: Start mixing it up! When I personally teach this class, I let them have at all the chemicals at once (even the indicator), and of course, this leads to a chaotic mix of everything. After the initial burst of enthusiasm, the students will intrinsically start asking better questions. They will want to know why their cold green goo is creeping on the floor with their neighbor s just oozed together a hot pink liquid, seemingly with the same stuff. Let them figure out a system of remembering which chemical goes where and with which to get the reaction they are looking for.

Periodically hold your hand under the muffin cups to test the temperature. Use the indicator before and after you mix up chemicals, and you will be surprised and dazzled by the results! Enjoy!

Since 1996, Aurora Lipper has been helping families learn science. As a pilot, astronomer, engineer, rocket scientist, and former university instructor, Aurora can transform toilet paper tubes into real working radios and make robots from junk in the back desk drawer. You can download the free science experiment workbook at SuperchargedScience.com SuperchargedScience.com

Let s play dress up! But this time set aside the dolls and Barbie and pick up your ordinary clothes hangers. Organizing the closet meets interior design with this easy craft project, and when you finish, you might have a few less Christmas gifts to buy.

In no time at all, you can make a collection of colorful padded hangers with a small cost in materials. This is all you need:

1. Plastic hangers

2. 12 or more plastic shopping bags per hanger

3. Tape (scotch is preferable)

4. 4 ½ yards of ribbon (1 ½ inches wide) per hanger

The most expensive item in this list will be the ribbon, so to save on cost you might get creative (like using strips of cotton cloth instead). Any material that has the color and design you like can be used as long as it is an inch and half wide or so. Ribbon is simply more convenient because it can be purchased at the width, length, color, and design that you want.

Once you gather up all of these items you are ready to start hanging your clothes in style. You should begin by wrapping plastic bags evenly around each hanger, using small pieces of tape to attach both ends of the bag to the hanger. Then, wrap the ribbon that you collected around the padding that you just created with the plastic bags. It is best to start at the base of the hanger s hook and leave an extra 12 inches of ribbon to use for tying a bow at the top of the hanger later on. Make sure that the ribbon hides the plastic padding by overlapping the ribbon on itself. When the hanger is completely wrapped with ribbon and you arrive back at the hook of the hanger, cut the ribbon so that you have another 12 inch tail. To finish off the project, tie the two 12 inch pieces of ribbon into a tight bow. This will keep the ribbon from unwinding itself and also add the final decoration for your new padded hangers.

Dressing up hangers is a great activity for all ages. It is so fun for kids and easily altered for the more avid craft maker. Ornaments and rhinestones around the bow and different layers of ribbon for a multi-colored effect are just a couple of simple additions that truly personalize your hangers. So whether you are creating a themed playroom or spicing up your coat closet for a dinner party, dress up your hangers for a quick fun craft.

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