That's a real shirt, with real pencils in the pocket, and real rubber gloves, with a real test tube. The hair and steam is cotton batting. The background is black construction paper - doesn't it look like a blackboard? Who knows WHAT those goggles are made of but I sure am glad that he's following proper lab precautions! Safety first! Chemical explosions second. At an Upper West Side branch of the New York Public Library.
A few months ago, our dog got into a diaper in the trash and ate part of it! I didn’t know that he had gotten into the diaper until I found the most bizarre looking dog throw-up on the carpet, and determined that it must be that gel crystal stuff that is inside a diaper. […]
Kids practice important math and science skills in this easy rainbow marshmallow science experiment for preschool and kindergarten.
This next science experiment is great for kids of all ages!
Experiment #1 What will happen when I put raisins in a cup of sprite? After you do the experiment, you will find out that the raisins DANCE! My students L.O.V.E this experiment and think that it is hilarious that the raisins dance up and down in the Sprite! Click {here} for the raisin experiment Experiment #2 What does our heart do for us? We talked about the heart and it's purpose! Then, we observed our own pulse using a marshmallow and toothpick. What a great time to learn about the heart (Valentine's Day)! Click {here} for the heart experiment Experiment #3 Which object lets the most light through from our flashlight? Using a flashlight, we determined which objects (dollar, black paper, net, plastic wrap, and tin foil) let through the most light. Click {here} for the light experiment clipart and/or fonts by DJ Inkers. www.djinkers.com Is your school heading to the land of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) or STEAM (Same, but add art)? Last year, our school committed to becoming a STEM+A (plus Art) school. So far- I'm loving it!!! It has really got me thinking outside of the box for sure. I'm excited to share with you some ideas that I have with STEM in the future. For now, I've got some posters that I made for our 1st grade STEM+A Intro Day! For our STEM+A Intro Day, we rotated all of the first graders (split into 5 groups) through our classrooms. Each teacher took on one of the letters and taught the students about the meaning of that letter and how we use it in every day life. We want our students to know that STEM is everywhere! Then, we did an activity based on the letter we had. I had Math and we played Pokemon Go Addition (totally made the game up...haha). These posters are great for my students to refer back to. Click {here} to check these posters out!
Here’s a fun science activity for kids of all ages! What happens when you put a sharp pencil through a baggie filled with water? Follow our Science for Kids Pinterest board! Baggie and Pencil Magic Science Activity Materials for Baggie and Pencil Magic plastic baggie sharp pencil water Procedure for Baggie and …
5 fun and easy egg experiments for kids. Learn about air pressure, transforming egg white and much more.
Explore eruption science with your school age kids. Summer STEM Lab - weekly STEM topics and fun activities to try at home.
Try these fun and educational activities for kids. Make a volcano, a tornado, glitter jars (like snow globes), giant bubbles, dry ice bubbles, and more.
To make beautiful geodes in your own kitchen you need more patience and time than anything else! Here is the basic recipe to start you off in the world of beautiful geodes.
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When playing around making our own scented goop I came across this fun fizzing and bubbling science for the kids to try. I mixed our goop up and then added a kool-aid packet to it for a fun smell and it started fizzing and bubbling like a volcano. It looked so cool and smelled so good. We made rainbows, the kids explored color mixing, and made fireworks. They had alot of fun. One of the best things about this science play is it is super inexpensive. Materials: Cornstarch.....you can get this at Wal-Mart for $1.00 12oz Baking soda....Wal-Mart as well 16oz for $2.00 Kool-aid packets....$0.20 at Wal-Mart Tray or pan for the goop Little containers for the kool-aid (optional) I had the kids use a little spoon to scoop the kool-aid powder onto the goop. (You only need to sprinkle a little bit at a time, but doesn't always happen with the kids.) How I made the goop: 2 cups of baking soda 1 cup of cornstarch 1/2 cup water After you make the goop then you sprinkle kool-aid powder on it and that is when you get the bubbling and fizzing science fun. NOTE: You want to have more baking soda then cornstarch cause the bubbling and fizzing happens due to the baking soda and the citric acid in the kool-aid packets when combined. I just noticed when adding more baking soda to the goop on the tray it seemed to bubble and fizz more. You can tell by "J" face expressions that it was fun and cool. "C" she was so into it. As she was doing the colors I would tell her the colors of each one and have her repeat it cause we are working on colors with her. We love doing fun science experiments, so be sure to check out some of our favorites below. Lava Lamp Coke explosion Make your own snow play Thanks for stopping by to see what fun stuff we are doing. Be sure to come follow us on Pinterest and Facebook
Hands up who remembers doing this experiment back in junior school. I remember it clearly, and it was no where near as awesome as this with all the colours. (I remember the teacher using blue ink t…
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By Loralee Leavitt, Candy Experiments At the USA Science and Engineering Festival in Washington, DC, children crowd around the Candy Experiments booth. A
This fun "Mad Scientist Potion" is perfect for a spooky party!
Toad Haven had fun playing with peeps! Left are some of the experiments they conducted. Visit Toad Haven for more peep fun! 1. Put a peep in the microwave and watch it grow! via Goons with Spoons 2. Drop a peep in a ziploc bag with baking soda and vinegar for a chemical reaction! 3. Mix two colored peeps in a bowl of water or sprite, watch the liquid change. Pink + Yellow = Orange 4. Combine hydrogen peroxide and vinegar with a peep. What happened? 5. Try dissolving a peep in baking soda and sprite. Did anything happen? Try other solutions, can you get a peep to dissolve? 6. Sink or Float? Can you make a peep sink? via Peep Research
With kids home from school now is the time to break out the big guns and show off your “cool” mom skills. Not many tings can make you appear to be the coolest mom on the block like science can. Here are some fund and easy science experiments you can wow you kids with while […]
Pin It Simply put, Vinegar + Baking Soda & Food Color = Science FUN ! I hadn't taken the time to do this with the Lil Divas &...
Make your own slushies without a blender: a treat and a science experiment in one.
We're doing a lot of science this summer and I love it. Okay, who cares if I love it, right?!? Well, the good news is, the boys love it to...
10 AMAZING Baking Soda Experiments, includes volcanoes, fizzy ice, popping canisters, exploding sandwich bags and more baking soda experiments
Best science experiment for kids: a sparkly explosion!! Kids will love this colorful and exciting science project.
It's about Halloween time...which means a great time for candy science experiment! Hop over to my blog to learn more about a floating M&M or Skittles experiment that is easy and inexpensive! And while you are there, you can get a FREE worksheet to use as a followup!
DoodleBot360: This is a very simple vibrobot to make, and a lot of fun to play with. I was a cubmaster for 3 years, and this is the kind of project that is perfect for that age group (8 to 11 years-old). Even if you are not in that age group, you…
Pendulum painting is another of those activities like fly swatter painting and the balloon cage that we have been doing at Woodland Park since my first year as a teacher. I build two of these rigs from PVC pipe . . . Look, you can still see the splatter marks on the wall from our recent fly swatter painting sessions! . . . string, a few links from our plastic chain set, and a plastic cup with a hole poked in the bottom. I've learned that every gallon of tempera paint has a slightly different consistency, but you normally need to dilute it with water so it flows properly. The jug we were working off this week needed to be about 2 parts paint to 1 part water. Of course, it also makes a difference how big you make the hole in your cup. I used a Phillips head screw driver to do the job. As the kids approach the table, the art parent puts her finger over the hole to prevent the paint from spilling out prematurely, fills the cup about half way with the thinned paint, and hands it over to the child saying something like, "Give it a swing." The results tend to be frame worthy: I've tried making the paint even thinner, but if it's too thin, the paintings dry "fuzzy" as the excess water tends to absorb into the paper as it separates from the paint a bit. Of course, thinner paint does nothing to reduce the child's experience, but this is one of those few art projects where Woodland Park parents say they really want to take one home to hang on their walls, so I go with thicker paint in the hope of creating a few of these keepsakes. Also, I usually pre-tear dozens of sheets of butcher paper to have stacked under the pendulum so that all the adult has to do is whip one away to reveal a blank canvas for the next artist. Not only does this help give kids their turn without a lot of waiting, but it also helps keep the table from becoming a big pool of black paint while you're changing out the paper. Between the Pre-3 and 3-5 classes, we made at least 100 of these artworks over the course of the past two days forcing us to be very creative in finding enough flat surfaces to dry them (for obvious reasons they can't be hung to dry). We went through an entire gallon of black paint and had to resort to blue by the end of the day yesterday. By this stage, the only painters left were a clutch of hard core scientists who were being quite intentional in their efforts. I wanted to share a few of these because you can see more complexity and evidence of different swinging techniques being employed. I even heard Anjali say, "I'm trying to make a butterfly." I think this is the butterfly. Annabelle achieved this by, in part, holding onto the string and swinging the cup in a kind of chaotic manner. Not all of them turned out looking like something from an art gallery . . . . . . but that was hardly the point of this lesson in physics.
Learn about how sound is made! Make science fun for kids of all ages by teaching them how sound is made. This sound activity is great for all curriculum
Amazing science magic tricks including leakproof bag, defying gravity and a skewer through a balloon. Awesome easy science tricks for kids ( and grown ups)
It's always hard to tell which MAKE project will be the one that lots and lots of folks make and then share, it looks like for volume 10 a lot of makers
These junk sculptures were created by my grade 4 and 5 classes a couple of years ago using recycled materials. Once constructed the robots...
Attention, scouts! From fireside fun to projects with plants, these amazing activities will teach you how to make cool scout crafts right at home. Do these 18 Scout Crafts for Camping, Learning, and Fun your own or with your troop.
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