Creative Tutors of Wake County, North Carolina
Category: Science
Jul 28 | Animal Science Fun
Located in Philadelphia, America's first zoo opened on July 1, 1874. Today the 42-acre zoo features over 1,600 species of exotic animals from around the world. The NC zoo is located in Asheboro, NC. Zoos are a fun way to study animal science. Be sure to plan a trip this month to your local zoo!
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Jul 12 | The Ice Cream Cone
What is summer without ice cream?!?! It is generally thought that the invention of the ice cream cone occurred on July 23, 1904 at the World Fair in St Louis when a waffle, which was sold separately, was rolled and filled with ice cream.
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Mar 24 | Molly the Barn Owl Live Feed
This barn owl family is quickly becoming America's most watched family. A man in California has set up a web-cam in an owl nest box 15 feet off the ground.
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NASA discovered a significant amount water on the Moon! It is in the form of ice and vapor. This is exciting because "having a local resource like water would make things a bit easier. Hydrogen can be derived from water for use as a rocket fuel -- and the ice plume kicked up by last month's probe would also be of the drinkable variant. If you could clean it, it would be drinkable water," said NASA's Anthony Colaprete.
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Meet Kim Ashby | Owner
Kim Ashby earned a BS in Nursing from The Catholic University of America and, when she worked outside the home, was a Certified Emergency Nurse with a special interest in trauma nursing. She lives in Raleigh, NC with her husband and three sons. The Ashbys have home schooled their children since 1999. They graduated their oldest son in May 2007. He is attending UNC Wilmington. Kim continues to home school her younger boys. Her oldest son was diagnosed with ADHD when he was in the public school system in the second grade. Her second son has cerebral palsy which has resulted in multiple/global developmental delays. Her youngest son has undiagnosed, mild auditory processing issues.
Kim has co-instructed graduate level courses at UNC Chapel Hill for ST/OT students and Early Intervention students. She is the founder and President of the Board of Directors of GIFTSNC, Inc., a home schooling special needs support group. Kim has presented workshops at a variety of state home school conferences as well as local support group parent meetings and is often a guest speaker at homeschool conferences and is found on many guest speaker lists including Balancing the Sword. She is a Steering Committee member and former Treasurer for Dayspring Home Educators in Cary, NC. She served on the Board of Directors for the Family Support Network of Wake County. She holds a North Carolina Wildlife Permit for Small Mammal Rehabilitation and enjoys working with orphaned and injured wildlife.
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." Mark Twain