Science Buddies Blog (4 results)

For this dedicated after-school educator, science activities from Science Buddies are a great fit for fun and engaging science exploration that doesn't feel like school. Over the last few months, she's done a number of activities from Science Buddies, including a creative science project with circuits and magnets that lets students make their own working speakers or headphones! Paper speakers science project combines magnets and circuits - and works! Above: Using… Read more

Are your students doing science research related to their science projects? Do you talk with students about world events and science news? The news feed at Science Buddies makes it easy to locate science news articles, and Google Classroom teachers can make reading assignments directly from the Science Buddies site. Two cropped screenshots show a search filter being used to find a news article on the website ScienceBuddies.org. The screenshot on the left shows a search… Read more

Science Buddies' Lesson Plans help educators lead STEM activities in and out of the classroom. This librarian used the Paper Rockets Lesson Plan as part of an ongoing STEM series at the public library! Lesson plans support STEM education everywhere! At Science Buddies, we want educators to feel confident leading STEM activities with students in any setting, even at the local library! Many educators using Science Buddies' free, NGSS-aligned Lesson Plans… Read more

For Science Buddies' scientists, everyday challenges provide inspiration for student STEM projects. Engineers create solutions for everyday problems! Scientists and engineers don't always leave their work at the office at the end of the day. Many scientists think like scientists all the time. It is how they approach the world both at home and at work. They ask questions. They form hypotheses. They set up experiments. They analyze data. (See the scientific… Read more