Marie Curie and the Discovery of Radium

Topics of study for chapters 1 and 2

~Exploring our Timeline--The late 1800s
We started with the year Marie was born, and we will continue to work on this until the year of her death.  Interesting to note that Laura Ingalls Wilder was born in the same year.
  Wikipedia timeline 1867

~Poland
 National Geographic Kids

~Tuberculosis
 info for kids

~Malachite
 info 

~Barometers

~intro to physics
I found an awesome website completely by accident.  It is called Kidipede.  There are a lot of resources available for teaching physics.  Lucky for me!

~Doing what needs to be done

~Russian rulers--The Czars and Empresses
We are just going to do a brief intro to get familiar with the names and time periods.

~The Riviera (Someone please take me there now.)

~Appreciating Polish culture

That is a lot to cover from just 2 chapters but the lessons were just too good to miss.