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Probability and Playing Cards: Hands-on Family Math
September 27, 2013 6:00 AM
A deck of cards provides a concrete look at probability and chance in a hands-on math activity that easily scales up and down in difficulty to match the experience of your students. A Deck of Cards Four suits. Thirteen cards in each suit. Twelve face cards. Four aces. Twenty-six red cards. Twenty-six black cards. Using these simple facts about a deck of cards, many math questions and scenarios rise to the surface! How likely is it that you will draw an ace from a full deck of cards?… Read more
Helping Teachers Approach Next Generation Science Standards
September 24, 2013 4:30 PM
As administrators and school boards around the country consider the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), Science Buddies is helping teachers begin ramping up, now, for some of the ways in which traditional classroom science projects and assignments may change. Side-by-side Comparison Science Buddies teacher resources and blog posts help teachers prepare to incorporate the engineering design process more widely in their classes. Rhode Island, Kansas, Maryland, Vermont, and… Read more
Soil Science: Weekly Science Project Idea and Home Science Activity Spotlight
September 19, 2013 8:30 AM
In this week's spotlight: a pair of environmental science and geology projects that let families and students investigate a biogeochemical cycle, a kind of reuse and recycling process that helps support an ecosystem. In either the independent science project or the family science version, students create and cultivate a miniature biosphere, called a Winogradsky column, to explore the relationship between available nutrients and the microorganisms that grow in a sample of… Read more
Understanding the Engineering Design Process: Teachers Embracing Engineering Design
September 16, 2013 12:27 PM
Teachers tasked with adapting science lesson plans to meet new standards that place increased emphasis on engineering design as a critical scientific practice need real-world resources to help them integrate engineering design in the classroom. Teaching and celebrating the engineering method is a positive change in K-12 science education, and Science Buddies can help teachers sort out the differences between scientific and engineering methods—and how the methods may play out in student… Read more
New Science Standards Emphasize the Engineering Design Process
September 13, 2013 9:00 AM
The Next Generation Science Standards encourage a multi-dimensional view of science education, one that highlights the importance of students learning to use the engineering design process—as well as the scientific method. Science and Engineering Methods Side by Side in Next Generation Science Standards A classic physics activity challenges students to discover how to keep an egg from breaking when dropped from a certain height. Using the scientific method, a student may initially… Read more
Cooking Caramel: Family Science Spotlight
September 12, 2013 8:30 AM
As this family discovered in their kitchen science activity, making caramel doesn't require much in the way of ingredients, but recipes vary, and timing and temperature matter! "My younger son wanted to make caramel sauce," reports the mom who sent in these photos. Sometimes a perfect science moment begins just like that! When the mom told her son that they only needed sugar and water to make caramel sauce, he was surprised and intrigued. Only two ingredients? As he and his mom… Read more
Rooftop Gardens: Weekly Science Project Idea and Home Science Activity Spotlight
September 5, 2013 9:00 AM
Science Buddies Hands-On Projects: Science and Engineering for School and for Home In this week's spotlight: a pair of environmental engineering science projects for a hands-on look at the benefits of taking a rooftop approach to going and growing green. Can rooftop gardens help you keep your house cooler and lower your energy bill? Explore with a student science Project Idea or a hands-on family science activity: Rooftop Gardens: Are They a Cool Idea? (full Science… Read more
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