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28 Projects to Jump-start Your Makerspace

November 24, 2025 8:00 AM

Inspire students of all ages to enjoy STEM when you let them loose in a creative makerspace! These hands-on engineering activities use simple materials and encourage students to brainstorm, problem solve, and innovate. Enabling Exploration Community makerspaces are collaborative spaces where people of all ages can… Read more

15 STEM Kits You'll Feel Good About Giving

November 21, 2025 8:00 AM

Inspire and support a love of STEM with science and engineering kits and books! These 15 kits offer hours of STEM fun, learning, and discovery. What will the kids in your life explore, make, create, or investigate? Are you already thinking about holiday gift ideas for the young people on your gift list? Science and engineering kits and books make great gifts at any time of the year. With quality STEM kits and books, kids of all ages can explore,… Read more

Ten Tips to Start Your Own STEM Club

November 20, 2025 8:00 AM

In this guest post, Tammy Sila, an elementary school teacher in Whiting, Iowa, and a Science Buddies Ambassador, shares a firsthand look at what is involved in running a successful after-school STEM club—and how you can start your own! Do It in STEM Club! By Tammy Sila, Science Buddies Educator Ambassador Do you wish you could do more STEM with your students but struggle to find a way to fit it in with curriculum requirements? That was my… Read more

Testing the Power of Wind – Sustainability Science for the STEM Fair

November 3, 2025 6:00 AM

Sixth-grade students created a model wind turbine from recycled plastic bottles to explore how the wind turbines they see on the highway generate energy. Wind Power & Sustainability Science If you've ever driven by a wind farm on the side of the road, you may have wondered how they work. Wind turbines, which use wind energy to generate electricity, play an important role in discussions of clean and sustainable energy. With their 6th-grade… Read more

What to Do When a Science Project Isn't Working

October 27, 2025 8:00 AM

Is your STEM experiment not working the way you expected? Use these five steps to troubleshoot and get your project back on track. Troubleshooting a Science Project Sometimes a science or engineering project doesn't work the way you expected. Maybe nothing is happening at all, or maybe what you are observing just doesn't seem right. Maybe your LED won't light, your motor won't spin, or the data you are gathering just looks totally wrong. While… Read more

Teach Chemical Reactions - 20+ Chemistry Lessons and Activities

October 15, 2025 8:00 AM

Use these free chemistry lesson plans, experiments, and activities to teach and explore chemical reactions with K-12 students. A chemical reaction occurs when two or more substances (reactants) are mixed together and result in one or more new substances (products). When teaching about chemical reactions, educators show chemical reactions in action and, when possible, let students get hands-on exploring reactions. With classroom science experiments,… Read more

2025 Nobel Science Projects for K-12 Students

October 14, 2025 6:00 AM

Explore and experiment with student science projects related to the 2025 Nobel Prizes. Explore Nobel Prize Science with Student Projects and STEM Lessons Each year, the Nobel Prizes in Physics, Chemistry, and Physiology or Medicine recognize breakthroughs and discoveries in STEM that have reshaped our understanding of the world and opened doors to new research and development. Students inspired by the 2025 Nobel Prize winners can experiment with… Read more

Space Science & Growing Plants in Microgravity with Arduino

October 8, 2025 6:00 AM

This middle school student took on a space-themed challenge for the STEM fair and built a clinostat with Arduino to explore plant growth in microgravity. Growing Plants in Space Evan, a middle school student in Milpitas, CA, built a solar oven for his school's STEM fair in 7th grade. Ready for a more advanced challenge the next year, he started the search for his 8th-grade project by browsing Arduino projects at Science Buddies. The Grow Plants… Read more

Chemical Reactions and Spice Projects for National Chemistry Week

October 6, 2025 6:00 AM

Chemistry projects and resources for National Chemistry Week 2025! National Chemistry Week is October 19-25, 2025. The theme of this year's chemistry awareness week, hosted by the American Chemical Society (ACS), is "The Hidden Life of Spices." Chemistry Projects Exploring Spices and Reactions Spices do more than just add flavor or heat to our food. The same molecules that make cinnamon smell sweet or peppers taste hot can also reveal invisible… Read more

24 Halloween Science Experiments!

October 1, 2025 8:00 AM

From icky slime to candy coatings, fake blood, wearable LEDs, a fire snake, and things that foam, light up, or glow in the dark, we have STEM suggestions for spooky, Halloween-themed science and engineering to explore with students! Halloween Science and Engineering Projects! Trick or treat! It's Halloween season! With its emphasis on the ghostly, the ghoulish, the gruesome, the spooky, the icky, and, of course, the sweet (to eat), Halloween brings an assortment of exciting themes to… Read more

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