This week I performed Emma Darwin for a science fair at Marshall Middle School in Olympia. It was totally impressive! 8th graders designing experiments and reporting the results on three narrow display panels. Among the many delicious investigations, a young man tested the old wives’ tale that coffee grounds were a good fertilizer. He compared [...]
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Science Fair meets Lenten Practice
Posted in Emma and Charles Darwin, Faith, Science Theatre on March 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Emma Speaks!
Posted in Creativity, Emma and Charles Darwin, Experiential Learning, Science Theatre, Storytelling on April 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Originally Posted Sunday, May 10, 2009 After two years, dozens of books, one trip to Down, England, and hours of imagining, Emma Darwin’s Helpful Suggestions for Surviving Life with a Scientist has been birthed. It’s a thirty minute visit with Charles’ wife, as she dishes up tales of rumpus rooms, worm research, and life lived [...]
Count Your Blessings & Watch Your Worms
Posted in Creativity, Emma and Charles Darwin, Experiential Learning, Faith, Science Theatre, Storytelling on April 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Originally posted April 1, 2008 Lately I’ve been reading the writings of the Darwins: the bearded ferocity of Charles and his lesser-know wife, Emma. We apply his name to to any sharp competition (the most obvious being Athletic Darwinism — a silly phrase), but when it came to his domestic habitat, CD was a pussycat, [...]
