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Boost Password Savvy with a Classroom STEM Game

February 29, 2016 12:00 PM

A classroom activity helps students explore questions related to password security. Conversations about cyber security and safeguarding personal information online are important to have with students, and activities like Password Duel help students engage directly with these concepts through fun, educational, hands-on exploration, testing, and data analysis in a game designed specifically for classroom use. With more and more activities taking place online, and students setting up… Read more

12+ Engineering Projects to Celebrate Girl Day

February 25, 2016 10:00 AM

Take time this Engineers Week to encourage a girl to try an engineering project or activity! Our list of 12+ ideas will help get you started! Today is Girl Day, an exciting part of Engineers Week! Girl Day is a wonderful reminder to educators and parents around the world that talking with girls about engineering careers, introducing them to engineering role models, and engaging them with creative and hands-on engineering activities can help them see… Read more

Celebrate Engineers Week with 15+ Hands-on STEM Projects

February 22, 2016 6:30 AM

Science Buddies has great ideas for engineering projects and activities you can do with your students to celebrate Engineers Week. With the right project, integrating a hands-on STEM activity is something all teachers can do! Marble Machine Art Bot: Build a Wobbly Robot That Creates Art Balloon-Powered Car Challenge Build a Gumdrop Geodesic Dome Milk Does Your Body and a Boat Good—Design Your… Read more

10+ Valentine's Day Candy Science Projects

February 12, 2016 10:00 AM

In celebration of Valentine's Day, take a look at 10+ exciting hands-on chemistry, food science, physics, and math projects that involve candy. Bend or Break? Candy Science M&M Geometry Candy Waterfalls: Can Candy Flow Like Water? Candy Camouflage Candy Snap M&M Math Candy Geodesic Dome Dancing Candy Hearts Making A Candy Waterfall: Can Solids Flow Like Liquids? Candy Color… Read more

Heavy Metals Turn Waterways Orange

February 9, 2016 9:45 AM

Efforts to clean up an abandoned mine turned into an environmental disaster when polluted water accidentally spilled into a local waterway. With Science Buddies Project Ideas, students can safely make real-world connections to how heavy metals and other pollutants affect aquatic life. By Kim Mullin Photo: Riverhugger, Wikimedia On August 5, 2015, Colorado's Animas River turned orange. The water flowed past towns and agricultural land, travelling more than 100 miles to Farmington,… Read more

Mastering the Project Display Board

February 3, 2016 12:15 PM

The project display board offers students a wonderful opportunity to show off and summarize their science fair project. What goes into making a well-organized and successful project display board, and how can students fill all that blank space? Review project display board basics with students to help them create effective display boards that showcase their hands-on STEM projects. It's science fair season, and as students wrap up their science,… Read more

The Best of 2015 on the Science Buddies Blog

February 2, 2016 12:00 PM

Take a look at some of our favorite blog posts from last year. These posts highlight great hands-on STEM projects, resources, and science connections for K-12 students, teachers, and families. We are well into the New Year, and many students are hard at work on science fair projects and science project assignments. As a writer at Science Buddies, every January, I enjoy looking back at the collection of science, technology, engineering, and math posts on the blog… Read more

Fruit Juice Distillation

January 28, 2016 10:30 AM

Explore the process of distillation with a kitchen chemistry activity using fruit juice. What role does boiling the juice play in the process? Mixing water (a solvent) and sugar (a solute) together will give you a solution, a homogenous mixture in which the solute has completely dissolved. You can reverse the process and separate the solution back into its parts using distillation. (Note: there are some solutions for which distillation does not work!) In this week's… Read more

Compare Sports Drinks with the Electrolyte Challenge

January 27, 2016 8:02 AM

With the Electrolyte Challenge science kit and project, students analyze the electrolytes in various sports drinks and juices. How does simple orange juice stand up to the electrolyte boost in sports drinks? With its combination of electronics and chemistry, the Electrolyte Challenge is a popular student science project at Science Buddies. Using a simple circuit and a sensor made from a straw and a bit of bare wire, students can investigate the… Read more

Projectile Physics and Catapult Science

January 22, 2016 2:00 PM

Explore the physics behind a catapult with a simple DIY catapult at home. Catapults have been used throughout history as a way to launch something from point A to point B, sometimes over castle walls and sometimes into things. Experimenting with a catapult and launching objects at a target can be fun for families or classes, and a catapult activity invites discussion of both the physics and math at work in the way a catapult operates and in how… Read more

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