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Superbugs and Antibiotics: Explore with a Dice Game
December 8, 2014 9:00 AM
Stopping the course of an antibiotic early is one way that bacteria develop greater resistance to available medicines. A new classroom activity, sponsored by Cubist Pharmaceuticals, helps students see how populations of bacteria respond to antibiotics. Using a colorful dice game, students roll the dice to see how many bacteria respond to treatment each day. How much harder is it to kill off a superbug? At the end of the game, the students can tell by looking at the dice that… Read more
Singing Science: Weekly Science Activity
December 4, 2014 11:00 AM
Photo: Children's choir. In this week's spotlight: a music-themed science activity that guides families in an exploration of vocal ranges. What determines how high or how low you can sing? What does the length of your vocal chords have to do with your vocal range? Does age or gender have anything to do with the highest note you can hit? Put these questions to a singing test with a science experiment. Comparing Vocal Ranges: How High and Low Can You Go? (full Science Buddies… 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
Globs of Gluten: Weekly Science Activity
December 1, 2014 8:30 AM
In this week's spotlight: a food-themed science activity that helps families explore the role of gluten in baking—and the different levels of gluten content in different types of flour. Many favorite holiday foods contain gluten, from stuffing and rolls to pies and pastries. But their different textures may have something to do with gluten. Extracting gluten from wheat flour can be sticky business, but in this science activity, families can get hands-on with their own gluten balls and… Read more
A Bus Powered by Human Waste
November 21, 2014 1:30 PM
A bus that runs on a gas powered by human waste goes for a test run in England. Students can explore alternative and renewable energy sources and proce/sses with biofuel and microbial fuel science projects. Learn more about the Bio-Bus from the Bath Bus Company. Did you catch wind of the new Bio-Bus (dubbed the "poo bus") that hit the roads this week in England for a 4-week trial? The bus, operated by the Bath Bus Company, is powered by bio-gas. An… Read more
Build Your Own Website: A Comic Guide to HTML, CSS, and WordPress
November 20, 2014 1:45 PM
A lighthearted how-to guide puts students on a yellow brick road to setting up a website using basic HTML and CSS or a content system like WordPress. Learn the Basics of Web Publishing by Following the Comic Adventures of Kim Build Your Own Website: A Comic Guide to HTML, CSS, and WordPress helps teach new web coders the basics of HTML, CSS, and WordPress by following the story of Kim and her little dog Tofu as Kim creates her first website. Computer Science Projects for Fun or… Read more
Musical Bottles: Weekly Science Activity
November 19, 2014 6:00 AM
In this week's spotlight: a music-themed science activity that helps families explore the relationship between the sound an instrument like a clarinet makes and the length of the air column. When a sound wave travels down a longer or shorter distance, how does what we hear change? In this activity, students use glass bottles filled with differing amounts of liquid to experiment. With some careful listening and trial and error, you might be able to play a song by blowing on the bottles in a… Read more
Solar Ovens Are Totally Hot!
November 13, 2014 11:49 AM
Can you harness the sun to cook your dinner? A solar oven skeptic is converted. By Kim Mullin My 6th-grader loves to build things, so when he needed an energy-related project for his science class, constructing a solar oven was right up his alley. He looked online for kid-friendly solar oven designs, many of which involve pizza boxes, and was skeptical. "I don't think this is really going to work," he announced. After weighing the pros and cons of different designs, he decided go… Read more
Biomedical Engineering: The Search for Solutions, Big and Small, for Type 1 Diabetes
November 7, 2014 9:00 AM
November is Diabetes Awareness month. Learn more about Type 1 Diabetes and the kinds of medical devices, solutions, and applications being used and developed to help treat and manage the disease—and put yourself in the middle of ongoing research and development with a cutting-edge student biomedical engineering, human biology, or computer science project. When you get sick, you want to make sure you have the best possible treatment (or the right… Read more
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