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April 27, 2020 11:00 AM
Follow along with a Science Buddies parent who is using family STEM activities to keep her kids learning at home during the COVID-19 school shutdown. New posts every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Today's adventure... exploring surface tension by making wire water striders.
A Spill Leads to Exploring Surface Tension
What happens when you put a freshly laundered tablecloth on the table? Well, in my house, it immediately triples the chance that someone…
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April 25, 2020 11:00 AM
Follow along with a Science Buddies parent who is using family STEM activities to keep her kids learning at home during the COVID-19 school shutdown. New posts every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Today's adventure... building a cotton ball launcher.
Rubber Bands — A Simple Frustration-Easer
How is it going for you? I'll be honest, it hasn't been a great day here. Today was one of those days where nothing goes right: four cranky family…
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April 22, 2020 11:20 AM
Follow along with a Science Buddies parent who is using family STEM activities to keep her kids learning at home during the COVID-19 school shutdown. New posts every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Today's adventure... exploring solar energy by building a solar updraft tower.
Any Day (or Every Day) Can Be Earth Day
Earth Day 2020 marks 50 years since the first Earth Day celebrations — I didn't think we'd be spending it like this! Typically,…
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April 20, 2020 1:00 PM
Follow along with a Science Buddies parent who is using family STEM activities to keep her kids learning at home during the COVID-19 school shutdown. New posts every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Today's adventure... building geodesic domes and other gumdrop geometry structures.
Geometric structures of varying sizes made from toothpicks and gumdrop candies
Math and Science Go Hand-in-Hand
From the beginning of our learn-from-home STEM adventure during…
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April 17, 2020 10:20 AM
Follow along with a Science Buddies parent who is using family STEM activities to keep her kids learning at home during the COVID-19 school shutdown. New posts every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Today's adventure...building and balancing a creative mobile.
A Balancing Act
I have a half-dozen one-liners running through my head about how there is no "balance" for parents in today's pandemic world. I'll spare you though — you can probably…
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April 15, 2020 10:00 AM
Follow along with a Science Buddies parent who is using family STEM activities to keep her kids learning at home during the COVID-19 school shutdown. New posts every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Today's adventure... building and playing with air cannons.
Letting My Child Lead the Way
Have I mentioned that I'm a bit of an obsessive planner? That hasn't been working out so well for me lately. We've had to throw away the plan a number of times. So,…
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April 13, 2020 1:00 PM
Follow along with a Science Buddies parent who is using family STEM activities to keep her kids learning at home during the COVID-19 school shutdown. New posts every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Today's adventure... answering COVID-19 questions by building models of viruses and understanding how soap can help kill coronavirus.
Activities to Address Kids' Questions About COVID-19
Do your children have questions about this coronavirus or the pandemic…
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April 10, 2020 11:00 AM
Follow along with a Science Buddies parent who is using family STEM activities to keep her kids learning at home during the COVID-19 school shutdown. New posts every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Today's adventure... constructing a rubber band guitar.
Quarantine with Kids is Not Quiet
How's it going at your house? Are you managing to find moments of quiet? I've given up. In my house, quarantine is noisy. There are arguments, video game music,…
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April 8, 2020 2:00 PM
Follow along with a Science Buddies parent who is using family STEM activities to keep her kids learning at home during the COVID-19 school shutdown. New posts every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Today's adventure... launching rockets made out of plastic Easter eggs.
Embracing Silliness, Themes, and Celebrations
I find myself forgetting what day it is more and more. I'm used to keeping track of the day by the hustle of our family-life schedule. …
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April 6, 2020 11:00 AM
Follow along with a Science Buddies parent who is using family STEM activities to keep her kids learning at home during the COVID-19 school shutdown. New posts every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Today's adventure... building a grasping robot hand out of household materials.
Nothing Normal Around Here
If this was a normal week, I'd be telling you all about how this is National Robotics Week (#RoboWeek), how awesome building robots is for kids of all…
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