Science Buddies Blog (Page 55)

Candy Color Chromatography

October 30, 2015 10:30 AM

With the Candy Chromatography Science Kit, students can unlock the colors that make up the coatings on favorite candies. This is a fun STEM experiment that yields visible results. The Candy Chromatography Science Kit can be used for several student science projects, but using the kit to break down candy coatings and investigate the dye composition of different candies is a great project for Halloween week (or while the Trick or Treat bag still… Read more

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

Special Effects Fun with Nick and Tesla

October 28, 2015 6:54 AM

This Nick and Tesla mystery guides readers in brewing STEM-based special effects that might be perfect for Halloween-themed fun. Need something to read this weekend before the Trick-or Treat fun begins? Nick and Tesla's Special Effects Spectacular: A Mystery with Animatronics, Alien Makeup, Camera Gear, and Other Movie Magic You Can Make Yourself! might be a just-right science-filled choice to tie in with trick-or-treat-fueled excitement. The plot of this book, number 5 in the series,… 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

Phone Book Friction Physics

October 22, 2015 10:56 AM

Explore the physics of friction using sticky notes. What happens when you interleave the pages of two books or pads of paper? Why? The friction between two objects determines how difficult it will be to slide one object across another. Friction accounts for how your feet move across grass, for example, compared to how an ice skate moves across ice. Scientists use both the coefficient of friction and measurement of normal force to talk about how much… Read more

Water on Mars—From Sci-Fi to Space Science

October 16, 2015 8:00 AM

The action in a popular sci-fi movie explodes when an astronaut stranded on Mars attempts to create water to irrigate his plants. Real-world space science, on the other hand, has been buzzing with new findings about water on Mars. The dry planet isn't completely dry after all. Image Left: The Martian, Twentieth Century Fox; Image Right: Recurring 'Lineae' on Slopes at Hale Crater, Mars, NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona The big screen… Read more

Cucumber Chemistry: The Drying Power of Dessicants

October 15, 2015 10:00 AM

Substances that can absorb water from the environment can help keep products dry—or help dry out something that has gotten wet, like an electronic device. The small silica gel packets that you often find when you open a new product are used to help keep the product dry. The properties that make a silica gel packet work are properties you can find in other substances as well. There are even ordinary kitchen ingredients that can be used to absorb moisture and help to dry something… Read more

Samsung Inspires Students to Solve Community Challenges with STEM

October 12, 2015 3:20 AM

Samsung knows that future success will depend upon innovative and empowered use of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). The Samsung Solve for Tomorrow Contest challenges teachers and students to brainstorm ways that STEM could be applied to solve a real-world challenge or problem in their community. Teachers who enter their classes in the contest can use the challenge as way to teach and explore hands-on STEM. Plus, they have a chance to win a share of $2 million in technology… Read more

Taste Tests and Other Science Projects with Volunteers

October 6, 2015 10:08 AM

Certain kinds of science questions require input from volunteers. Whether the project involves a taste test or another kind of test, volunteers can be a key component for projects exploring human behavior and perception, human biology, or food sciences. Sometimes, a science project is all about you and the experiment. You have a question. You have a set of variables. You have a hypothesis. You have a procedure, and by following the steps, you will see… Read more

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