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A Bus Powered by Human Waste
November 21, 2014 1:30 PM
A bus that runs on a gas powered by human waste goes for a test run in England. Students can explore alternative and renewable energy sources and processes with biofuel and microbial fuel science projects. Learn more about the Bio-Bus from the Bath Bus Company. Did you catch wind of the new Bio-Bus (dubbed the "poo bus") that hit the roads this week in England for a 4-week trial? The bus, operated by the Bath Bus Company, is powered by bio-gas. An experiment in putting alternative… Read more
Build Your Own Website: A Comic Guide to HTML, CSS, and WordPress
November 20, 2014 1:45 PM
A lighthearted how-to guide puts students on a yellow brick road to setting up a website using basic HTML and CSS or a content system like WordPress. Learn the Basics of Web Publishing by Following the Comic Adventures of Kim Build Your Own Website: A Comic Guide to HTML, CSS, and WordPress helps teach new web coders the basics of HTML, CSS, and WordPress by following the story of Kim and her little dog Tofu as Kim creates her first website. Computer Science Projects for Fun or… Read more
Musical Bottles: Weekly Science Activity
November 19, 2014 6:00 AM
In this week's spotlight: a music-themed science activity that helps families explore the relationship between the sound an instrument like a clarinet makes and the length of the air column. When a sound wave travels down a longer or shorter distance, how does what we hear change? In this activity, students use glass bottles filled with differing amounts of liquid to experiment. With some careful listening and trial and error, you might be able to play a song by blowing on the bottles in a… Read more
Solar Ovens Are Totally Hot!
November 13, 2014 11:49 AM
Can you harness the sun to cook your dinner? A solar oven skeptic is converted. By Kim Mullin My 6th-grader loves to build things, so when he needed an energy-related project for his science class, constructing a solar oven was right up his alley. He looked online for kid-friendly solar oven designs, many of which involve pizza boxes, and was skeptical. "I don't think this is really going to work," he announced. After weighing the pros and cons of different designs, he decided go… Read more
Biomedical Engineering: The Search for Solutions, Big and Small, for Type 1 Diabetes
November 7, 2014 9:00 AM
November is Diabetes Awareness month. Learn more about Type 1 Diabetes and the kinds of medical devices, solutions, and applications being used and developed to help treat and manage the disease—and put yourself in the middle of ongoing research and development with a cutting-edge student biomedical engineering, human biology, or computer science project. When you get sick, you want to make sure you have the best possible treatment (or the right… Read more
The Speed of Falling: Weekly Science Activity
November 6, 2014 9:23 AM
In this week's spotlight: a physics science activity that helps families see gravity, acceleration, and speed in action. Gravity exerts force upon an object, but what does this mean in terms of how fast something falls? Does the speed of falling change based on how far something falls? Using a simple marble run, you can put these questions to the test and see how gravity's constant acceleration affects the distance that an object travels over time. (You can see how this works when riding a… Read more
Get a Jump Start on the Project Display Board
November 4, 2014 11:00 AM
You don't have to wait until the last minute to start the project display board for a science fair project. A great board takes planning, and you can do a good deal of preliminary legwork getting your board ready even before the project is complete! Above: Students share their science projects with project display boards. See these students' stories: Galactic Curiosity and A Crash Course Science Project. The Science Fair Project Display Boards… Read more
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