Ms. B's Science Lab

03/22/2026

12/03/2025

Help us stuff a cruiser at Bass Pro in East Hartford on Saturday December 13th! The Wilderness School is an amazing organization that helps troubled youth develop life skills through wilderness adventure programming. All proceeds and donations will help them in their mission.

06/28/2024

Deer Moments Heron Now
One of our cautiously approaches the water as the hunkers down in the grass, doing its best statue impression.

06/22/2024

Big Man and Sweet Tooth
Two years ago, one of the visiting does of brought her fawn up the hill to visit the chickens and the bird feeders. "Cookie Doe" had been a frequent visitor to over the years and monitored my project from the field. I suspect she had also been part of the herd of deer who often helped themselves to the peaches, pumpkins, and lilies growing around the property.
When we first spotted her offspring with her, his spots were almost completely faded and I inferred the little skipper was going to be a buck. He seemed to have a thicker cap on his head and, though I usually default to using the pronoun "she", Cookie's kid just gave me a sense of "burgeoning buck". We started calling him "Quarter Buck".
Quarter became a regular here even after he stopped grazing with the rest of the group. He was spotted very early this season with his first set of tiny little antler buds and his gender reveal came as no surprise!
The surprise came earlier this week when Quarter showed up to the pond in the morning with his much larger fishing buddy. Quarter's new companion is sporting a much more well developed antler rack so he earned the name "Buck Fifty".
Both Quarter and Buck Fifty's antlers will continue to grow throughout the summer until the soft velvety covering on their racks is ready to shed. By fall, they will have the distinctive white tailed deer antlers and I hope they come by in September to show them off!
In the meantime, they've left me wondering about the socialization, feeding, range, and growth and development patterns of white tailed deer. It looks like I've got some summer research to do!

06/04/2023

From Incubator to Brooder Bin
On Friday, 9 of the 10 eggs in the incubator hatched, introducing the community to nine healthy, alert 🐣 With the 9 chicks fluffed out and dried by the evening, the were moved from the to the to be transported home to for the weekend.
The will return to school on Monday to meet the rest of our young scientists 👩‍🔬🧬

06/02/2023

Happy Hatch Day
Meet Baby Fossil, our newest addition to the Della Luna Cooper Flock! Fossil is also the first baby chick born in the BCCS science lab since 2019.

We are so excited to introduce our new baby to our young scientists at and we can't wait to see how many more of the 9 eggs still in the incubator will hatch over the next two days!

03/29/2023

Hunting for Constellations
Can you identify the celestial bodies pictured here? Once you know what you are looking for, it's Siriusly easy to see a major star cluster bounding across the Southern sky just behind the mythological Greek Hunter!
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03/21/2023

The Balance Before the Tipping Point
At 5:24 pm, we reached the point of balance on Earth, ushering in the spring of 2023. As we continue our journey around the sun, Earth's tilt towards the sun will provide us with longer days and warming temperatures. is waking up and everyone is eager to check out the drastic changes on the farm as plants and pond life begin to emerge from their winter dormancy.
Even Manny the Shadow Hunter and Layla Belle the Cuddle Kitty came down to check out the wood frog egg masses in the water and crayfish with their berry-like eggs tucked protectively under their tail. We are all excited for the lengthening days ahead!

12/22/2022

Manny Paws
brought some lively winter cheer to today! With his calm demeanor, he taught 3rd graders about variations in personality traits in individuals of a species and they taught him that the science lab is a safe space for him.
As for his contribution to Environmental Club... Let's just say his lesson on "air pollution" brought tears to our eyes! 🤣

12/22/2022

Solstice Supper
I arrived home at yesterday just in time for the Winter Solstice. Though the daylight hours will begin to slowly begin to return again, the coldest days of the season are still ahead. Fortunately for the does and their growing offspring, has been a sanctuary where they've found food, entertainment, and a place to bed down while building their fat stores and warm winter coats. I look forward to looking for their tracks in the snow!