We home-educate our children, but it's very rare that their education actually happens at home, we travel around in our tinyhouse with our children exploring this world, at the moment we are back in Sweden earning some money before we head off again, at the end of August we go on another Euro trip, ending up in Portugal where we plan on buying some land to start our eco-village.

Just because we are not out exploring the world doesn't mean we stop learning, this week we have been Rock climbing, we have also had a Medieval history lesson, so I thought it would be a good idea to finish off the week with a Science lesson.

Luckely for us, a new Exploratorium had just opened in our "hometown" this I thought would be a great place for exploring the world through science and it fitted in nicely with our policy of informal learning.

Here we learnt about water and its ability to generate energy with the use of water wheels and water turbines, the trick was to direct the flow of water to generate the maximum amount of energy, we did OK but in the end a member of staff felt sorry for us and showed us how it was supposed to be done.

Powering up the mega turbine was great fun.

Here the children got to learn about how to properly manage forests to protect the eco-system and save our planet from destruction.

Then it was theater time where we learnt all about the origins of electricity and how it will be generated in the future, the lady really got my attention when she explained that we will all be driving around in electric cars paid for with bitcoins, I nearly fell off my chair with excitement, this woman, up in the north of Sweden was teaching children the potentials of Bitcoin, I immediately thought"wow, I had better go home and buy some more while they are still cheap.

After me getting excited about Bitcoin and the kids about what happens to a soap bar when you put it in the microwave, we went to learn about the solar system, planets, gravity and inside the sun was a dark room where we got to see all the stars.

We then found a big box of building materials and being the only tinyhouse family on steemit and in the north of Sweden we couldn't resist building another tinyhouse. :)

This place was amazing, you could almost see the kids brains exploding with activity, they really did learn a lot about the world and how it works, I was very impressed with how up to date it all was and how they really tried to teach the kids how to look after this world we live in. I am usually a bit sceptical about places like this as they are usually filled with plastic toys and coca cola adverts but not here, they had no extras and no pushy salesman tactics, once you had paid to get in that was it.

I strongly believe in this way of learning and will continue to teach my children about the world by seeing, touching, smelling, tasting, feeling, hearing and believing what they see in front of them instead of forcing them to sit in a classroom with 30 other children learning propaganda from a textbook.

I will leave you with some more pic's from the day's adventures.

Peace and love to the World.