Last Year on the Science Buddies Blog
Did you miss something? Check these highlights and favorite posts from last year on the Science Buddies Blog for great science project overviews, visual spreads that show hands-on science in action, student success stories, and real-world STEM connections to inspire and engage students, teachers, and families with science, technology, engineering, and math.
As a writer at Science Buddies, I really enjoy at the end of the year (or the start of the new year) looking back at the wide range of projects, activities, and science news connections I had the chance to experiment with and write about in the span of a year. As a writer and a parent, I greatly enjoy helping to highlight connections between the real world and the STEM projects that students might do as part of a science fair, for a class assignment, or just for fun on the weekends. I also very much enjoy the process of testing some of our science kits and science project procedures hands-on with my own students at home.
Here are a few of my favorite posts, especially the ones that really let you see the excitement hands-on science can encourage, from 2014:
- LEGO Movie Makes Engineering Awesome
- Building a Halloween Brushbot: Family Robotics
- Boba Spherification: The Science of Juice-filled Caviar
- Durable Paper Dolls: Materials Science Meets Creative Pastime
- Magic Train Puts Kids on Track with Physics of Magnetism
- Galactic Curiosity: Fifth Grade Student Charts a Science Course for the Stars
- Family Fun with Physics: Launching Plastic Eggs with the Ping Pong Catapult
- Light Up the Season with Computer Science Exploration
- Exploring Acid Dyeing with Eggs and Ties: A Student Science Success Story
- Crash Testing Calculators: Product Engineering and the Road to Improved Durability
- Candy Corn Geodesic Dome
- Squash Power
- Superbugs and Antibiotics: Explore with a Dice Game
- Making a Game of City Planning: Students Explore Civil Engineering
- Girls, Boys, Video Gaming, and Summer Survey Science
- Computer Programming Basics: An Hour of Code
- Teachers who Pin: Teachers Find Support and Inspiration for Science Education at Pinterest
I know exciting new projects and science kits are coming in 2015 from Science Buddies, and I can't wait to see what I get to try out and write about this calendar year as part of our mission to help encourage and support K-12 hands-on science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education.
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