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Philadelphia Classrooms Benefit from Science Buddies Kit Club Program

June 14, 2017 5:00 AM

Four teachers in Philadelphia received free science kits for their classrooms thanks to support from Science Buddies and VWR Foundation. The Science Buddies Kit Club program helps provide science kits to K-12 classrooms in need throughout the U.S. By matching companies with local schools, Science Buddies supports STEM education and helps promote community STEM awareness. The Kit Club program launched during the 2016-2017 school year. With support… Read more

Google's Science Journal App Transforms a Cell Phone into a Powerful Tool for Science Class

April 3, 2017 6:00 AM

With Google's Science Journal app, a student's phone acts as a Swiss Army knife for scientific research, exploration, and data analysis. To help students and teachers learn about the app, Science Buddies has integrated the Science Journal app into student science projects that involve sensor-based data. Students can now do sophisticated sensor-based projects using their phones and without additional specialty equipment. To further support teachers using the Science Journal app in the classroom,… Read more

Kit Club Helps Level STEM Playing Field

February 14, 2017 11:00 AM

Thanks to the Science Buddies Kit Club program and companies who want to support STEM education in their local communities, more students have access to quality science and engineering kits. To inspire STEM awareness, one New Jersey school district has turned its Kit Club grant award into a video challenge for area schools. Which school will receive science kits sponsored by the Allergan Foundation? The community will decide with their votes! Science Buddies Kit… Read more

Lesson Plans Help Teachers Put Hands-on Science on the Calendar

January 26, 2017 1:33 PM

Science Buddies Lesson Plans make it easier than ever for teachers to confidently lead standards-based science and engineering experiments and activities with their students. A collage of screenshots show a summary page for a catapult project on the website ScienceBuddies.org. At the top of the project summary page there is a navigation bar with tabs for lesson and teacher tools highlighted. Links on the right of the project summary page show a standards link that… Read more

Better Lip Balm Science

December 12, 2016 7:00 AM

Thanks to help from a team of volunteers at PPG, a cosmetics-focused student chemistry project got a "lift." The updated project gives interested students the chance to create and test a homemade lip balm product using quantitative analysis in keeping with the requirements for many student science project assignments. Above: PPG employees put the Cosmetic Science: Testing Lip Balm Recipes student science project to a hands-on test as part of a volunteer activity. Cosmetics and… Read more

Giving Tuesday - Help us keep our materials free

November 29, 2016 2:13 PM

Millions of K-12 students use ScienceBuddies' science project ideas and resources each year. We need your help to keep our STEM materials free. Read more

Smart Science Project Display Boards

October 5, 2016 11:00 AM

Taking Project Display Board creation step by step helps students create great display boards that showcase their science and engineering projects. Our Project Display Board guide gives students a clear understanding of what belongs on the board so that they can build their boards section by section without waiting until the last minute! A diagram of an example science project display board gives directions on how to build a great board. The board should contain a… Read more

Raise Your Voice against Cyberbullying

October 3, 2016 2:00 AM

Staying silent about cyberbullying can be devastating and dangerous for students, but statistics suggest that cyberbullying is on the rise and most students are reluctant to seek help. Through a new website and downloadable guide, Norton hopes to help parents better understand and talk about cyberbullying with their kids. A banner for cyberbullying awareness includes a drawing of a child's face covered in insulting words and hidden behind hands that read… Read more

Back to School with Science Buddies' Google Classroom Integration

August 9, 2016 7:55 AM

New Science Buddies' support for Google Classroom allows teachers to more easily manage STEM assignments. With new quizzes, project submission forms, and hundreds of assignable projects and STEM reading materials available, teachers can create science assignments with the click of a button. Science Buddies is excited to announce immediate availability of its new Google Classroom Integration, a robust set of free tools on the Science Buddies… Read more

Spark Creative STEM All Summer Long with Science Buddies Summer Camp

June 15, 2016 10:00 AM

Put science on the summer calendar! Enroll your students in Science Buddies Summer STEM Camp for an engaging robotics and computer programming experience! Camp is open. Campers can come for a week or all summer long, through August 5, 2016. Creative Learning in a Flexible Online Camp Science Buddies' flexible Online Summer Camp provides weekly activities for students, support and encouragement from a team of enthusiastic science experts, additional robotics and computer programming… Read more

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