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The Physics of Fake Blood
October 29, 2015 8:25 AM
How can physics help you mix up the ickiest fake blood to gross out your friends this Halloween? Head to the kitchen to find out! Use physics to mix up the most believable fake blood. www.sciencebuddies.org In this week's Fake Blood made Scientific, families get a chance to mix up something icky, gross, and gory—fake blood. Perfect for Halloween week, this activity lets kids explore how the viscosity of different ingredients relates to how… Read more
Wire Some Trick-or-Treat or Light-up Fun with Scratch and Raspberry Pi
October 27, 2015 8:00 AM
With the new Raspberry Pi Projects Kit from Science Buddies, students can explore a series of activities that combine creativity, electronics, and computer programming using Scratch—no prior experience required! For this middle school student, a homemade pumpkin was a perfect thing to light up with LEDs! Laura, a 7th grade student in CA has an interest in electronics and creative and handmade projects. This summer, she used the Raspberry Pi Projects kit at home and explored an… Read more
Halloween STEM Roundup
October 22, 2015 2:13 PM
Every October, we hand-pick a collection of Science Buddies projects and activities that tie in with all things Halloween. This year, we have even more great suggestions for slimy, icky, ghoulish, spooky, gross, or tasty hands-on science for Trick-or-Treat week and beyond. We can help you light up your costume with science, too! Squishy Circuits Candy Corn Geodesic Dome Seeing Tonic Water Glow Alka-Seltzer Lava Lamp Squash Power Building a Halloween Brushbot Saved by the (Blood)… Read more
Squash Power
December 1, 2014 4:00 PM
How do your favorite veggies compare when it comes to generating power? Find out with a hands-on veggie power electronics project! Veggie Power isn't just for potatoes! How do other veggies (and fruits) compare? The Veggie Power Battery Kit is popularly used to explore the way simple potatoes can be used to generate a small amount of power and light up an LED light or activate a little buzzer. But potatoes are not the only veggies that can be used… Read more
Sounds Like Halloween: Weekly Science Activity
October 30, 2014 10:30 AM
In this week's spotlight: a music-themed science activity perfect for Halloween week. What sounds do you associate with Halloween movies or Halloween music? What makes the sounds spooky,scary, or eerie? When you watch movies, what kinds of music do you hear, and how does the music fit what is happening in the movie? Are there patterns of instruments, pitch, or tempo that accompany certain scenes in movies? Pull out your favorite Halloween family movies or playlists, put on your listening… Read more
Halloween Science Connections
October 27, 2014 6:00 AM
As Halloween approaches, there are a number of ways you can tie science in with activities and projects that let kids get hands-on with things slimy, ghoulish, gross, light-up, or glow-in-the-dark. For the trick-or-treat crowd, there are plenty of candy-themed experiments to help kids whittle down—or statistically analyze—some of their All Hallows' Eve loot, too! Browse the following list of inspired Halloween science activities and science, technology, engineering,… Read more
Candy Corn Geodesic Dome
October 24, 2014 11:52 AM
A classic science (and geometry) project takes on Halloween tones with candy corn-colored candies, a few ordinary toothpicks, and a bunch of triangles. We are big fans in my house of the geodesic dome. We initially tried a bigger-than-expected version made from straws a few years ago. We had a great time putting it together—but it would not fit through the front door! Making a small-scale geodesic dome from gummy candies is a much easier and… Read more
Building a Halloween Brushbot: Family Robotics
October 21, 2014 11:00 AM
An orange scrub brush gives a family science activity a boost of jack-o-lantern-inspired fun and leads to a great robotics exploration. Ever since the new Brushbot family science activity launched at Science Buddies, with electronics components conveniently bundled in a multi-project kit, I have had it on my "must make" list for my kids. Thinking it would be cool to couple trick-or-treat month and the robotics project, I decided we would make a… Read more
Making Juice-filled Boba with a Spherification Science Project
October 6, 2014 9:00 AM
We go DIY with molecular gastronomy and family science as we make our own popping boba using the Science Buddies Spherification Kit. When it is hot outside, my kids love to pit stop at the nearby frozen yogurt shop where they can swirl frozen yogurt into an oversized paper bowl and load it up with toppings of their choice. Favorite toppings vary, but one kid's heaping concoction always includes little slippery, fruit-flavored balls—popping boba.… Read more
Seeing Tonic Water Glow: Weekly Science Activity
August 14, 2014 8:00 AM
In this week's spotlight: a chemistry-focused family science activity that puts light energy, ultraviolet light, and visible light on display. With ordinary tonic water and a black light, families can learn more about ultraviolet light. What happens to the glow when you add a bit of bleach to the tonic water? Put it to the test to find out! Explore Glow-in-the-Dark Water! (Science Buddies activity) Shining Science: Explore Glow-in-the-Dark Water! (science activity at Scientific… Read more
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