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March 27, 2024 8:00 AM
Are you in the path of totality for the April 2024 solar eclipse? What will you and your students see? What related science projects can students do to learn more?
Image: A view of the Aug. 21, 2017, total solar eclipse from Madras, Oregon. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
Solar Eclipse Science for Students
What happens when the Moon passes between the Earth and the Sun? A solar eclipse!
During a solar eclipse, the Moon blocks some or all…
March 25, 2024 8:00 AM
Celebrate spring with these free science and engineering lessons, projects, and activities for enriching hands-on STEM related to spring weather, flowers, plants, and more!
STEM Activities to Explore Spring Themes to Science Class
After the winter months, the return of spring brings fresh patterns of weather, animal behavior, plant growth, and more. There are plenty of opportunities for students to explore science with activities related to…
March 22, 2024 6:00 AM
Colorful Peeps candies are popular Spring treats. Put your extras to use with one of these five easy science activities for some bunny-inspired STEM fun.
We've shared ideas in the past for egg boiling and egg dyeing, fun and unusual egg shapes, and even using the Ping Pong Catapult for launching plastic eggs. Egg science can be a lot of fun!
This year, our scientists have Peeps® on the brain.
If you have extra marshmallow Peeps in coming weeks,…
March 21, 2024 6:00 AM
Use these free STEM lessons and activities to introduce and experiment with robotics with students. From designing and building simple robots to thinking about how robots can be used to solve real-world problems, these hands-on projects help students gain and practice circuit-building and robotics engineering skills.
The free STEM lessons, projects, and activities below help introduce students to robotics, robotics engineering, and the kinds of…
March 19, 2024 8:00 AM
As college basketball prepares for the March Madness spring championship, students can investigate basketball science and the math and physics behind hoops success.
March Madness Sports Science
Great hands-on sports science projects help students explore science, physics, and math principles at work in the sports they love to play and watch. When it comes to basketball and March Madness, students can bounce through physics experiments related to…
March 15, 2024 8:00 AM
This teacher had students design and build sorting machines as part of an environmental science engineering unit.
Connecting Engineering to Real-world Problems
STEM Success!
Educator:
Kelly Long, Renaissance Charter School, Cooper City, Florida
Resource:
Build a Recycling-Sorting Machine
Summary:
Middle school students made sorting machines as part of…
March 13, 2024 8:00 AM
Use these free science lessons, experiments, and activities to teach K-12 students about density.
Sometimes students wrongly think that an object's density is the same as its weight or its mass. Instead, density refers to an object's mass in a given volume. Two objects that have the same shape and size (volume) but have a different mass (like two same-sized balls with different weights) have different densities.
As a physical property of…
March 11, 2024 6:00 AM
Bring on the luck of the Irish with these six fun, hands-on STEM projects for St. Patrick's Day!
From the magical pot of gold at the end of a rainbow to lucky charms, leprechauns, shamrocks and more, St. Patrick's Day is brimming with opportunities to tweak science and engineering activities to fit the day.
Try one of these green picks for chemistry, engineering, and physics fun with students of all ages:
Leprechaun Snot: It just takes a bit of…
March 4, 2024 6:00 AM
Try these clever STEM activities to connect hands-on science and engineering to the ever-popular world of Mario! Let's-a go!
Your kids and students probably know Mario, Luigi, Princess Peach, Bowser, and the Mario World gang, and chances are you do, too!
March 10 is Mario Day, so known because in the right typeface, M A R 1 0 looks like M A R I O. (Once you see it, you see it!) This is the kind of clever…
February 28, 2024 8:00 AM
March is Women's History Month! Learn more about women in STEM in science history and get inspired! More than 60 profiles of scientists and engineers!
Women's in STEM for Women's History Month: 60+ Scientists to learn more about!
Update! This post has been updated for 2024 to highlight additional scientists and engineers!
There have always been women in science. Whether recognized at the time or not, women interested in science and engineering…
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