Natures Liquid Gold aka Maple SyrupWe have jumped full on into maple sugaring season here in New Hampshire. Three years ago, we began tapping some of the maples on our...
Escape the ClassroomI have spent the past 6 weeks running Escape the Classroom events at the local Makerspace, with my Girl Scout Troop, and for my nieces...
Cryptology and Binary SystemsThe world of codes, ciphers and cryptology has dominated my thoughts and teaching these past few months between my Escape the Classroom...
Engineering a BreakoutI recently started running Escape the Classroom/BreakoutEDU games at the local Makerspace. I find with all my lessons and activities I...
Hidden coded messagesDid you know, the floor of Boelter Hall at UCLA has a coded message in binary code? I started looking for ways that binary code was used...
01000010 01101001 01101110 01100001 01110010 01111001 00100000 01000011 01101111 01100100 01100101 0I recently covered an Engineering Technology class and was asked to teach them my lesson on Binary Code to a group of 5th graders. I love...