Physics Fables
Quick conceptual introductions to some of the most fascinating ideas in physics! These are short stories that each introduce a single topic, explain it through a story, and then give fun hands-on activities or discussion questions. Great for use in the classroom to introduce a topic in an engaging way.
The Wayfarer's Scepter: An Adventure in Magnetism
Clemmm and the Polar Coordinates
Sakura and the Many-Layered Sea: A Tale of Density
Adventure Workbooks!
The best way to learn is through doing. In this series, I’m taking some abstract physics or math (or both!) concepts, creating a story that involves those concepts, and then crafting a series of fun, hands-on activities to go along with the story. For each of these activities, you can download the PDF version for free, and the story that goes along with it, or you can buy a printed spiral notebook version (I print through Lulu rather than Amazon specifically because I love spiral notebooks so much. Much easier to write in.)
Starlight Starship: An Interstellar Voyage of 3-D Shapes and the Inverse Square Law
More Soon!
I hope to make more of these soon - if you tried out the Starlight Starship Adventure, I’d love to hear what you thought, so I can incorporate your feedback into the next Adventure!
Fairy Tale Physics
The Fairy Tale Physics series combines beautifully illustrated fairy tales with foundational physics concepts to create a whimsical educational adventure. For ages 10-12. They’re now the bestselling children’s science books on Amazon!
Math Notebooks
One thing I do with most of my students is coach them on how to take notes. Notes aren’t just a way to record information for later use; they’re a tool for processing information.
The note-taking process I teach involves writing down the major ideas and equations, while mostly just following along with the lecture, thinking about the concepts. That way you record the most important information, but you’re thinking about and engaging with the content, rather than just copying what’s written on the board.
For all my students, I want math to be an enjoyable experience. Part of that is picking a notebook that they love writing in. Especially for students with ADHD, having really detailed notes that they can refer back to can be really empowering.
I know there are tons of beautiful notebooks out there, but I wasn’t finding any that had all the features I wanted, so I worked with an illustrator to create these. I wanted them to be really beautiful in addition to being useful.
Here’s what makes them different than the typical spiral:
Numbered Pages
Table of Contents
Lined Paper and Graph Paper on Every Page
Space for Important Equations
Space for Questions
Non-Fiction
I have a couple of non-fiction series on Amazon. My algebra series is a set of basic workbooks focused on building foundational skills. They’re especially focused on the small details I see most students have difficulty with. Electric Circuits is part of the Stick Figure Physics series, which is a series of short (math-filled) eBooks that explain physics topics with stick figures.
Patreon
Something that’s incredibly important to me is making engaging physics education accessible to everyone.
I want to make very high-quality materials, which means great stories, editing, professional illustrations, and formatting, and I’d like them to available at a cost that anyone can afford.
To that end, I’m experimenting with starting a Patreon.
For $5/month, you can help support things like high quality illustrations, editing, audiobook production (something very expensive that a lot of people ask me about and I'd really like to make), and just general predictability for me so I can invest in ambitious projects.
In return for the support, you get access to absolutely everything digital! eBooks and pdfs of everything I've made and will make in the future! This includes:
The Fairy Tale Physics Series
The Stick Figure Physics Series
The Physics Story Worksheets
The Math Workbooks
You’ll also get everything I make as it comes out!
The Electricity Interactive Story Game
The Upcoming Gravity: A Fairy Tale
A new monthly bonus story or game, with discussion questions and activities
More importantly (to me, anyway), you can help me shape the direction of this new project by voting on what topics you’d like to see and what features you’d like them to have. I’ve found the input from parents, teachers, and students incredibly helpful over the years as I’ve been making these story-based educational resources.
You can also follow along for free- I post free material, and I'll try to make as much of the content as possible available for individual sale- I get not wanting to sign up for a subscription.
Thanks for reading!
Fantasy Novels
I also write fantasy novels! I write humorous, character-driven fantasy stories with a lot of speculative world building and magic systems, usually with awkward, anxious, or over-thinking protagonists.