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Comets, Asteroids, and Meteors
They say that when you make upon a shooting star it may come true! Did you know that the "shooting star" is actually not a star? These...
How Can You Help the Earth?
Our Earth is in need of our help! Our human population has impacted our planet in several ways. Overpopulation, pollution, burning fossil...
What is Oceanography?
Did you know that less than 5 percent of the ocean's plants have been discovered? Other than the fact that the ocean plays a role in...
How do Polar Bears Stay Warm?
"Push yourself, because no one else is going to do it for you." -Unknown Have fun learning about...
Density of the Ocean
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be found." - Carl Sagan Learn about how temperature and salinity affect the...
Who Are Food Scientists?
Many of us might have heard of food scientists. But do we really know what they do? Food or agricultural scientists use chemistry,...
All About Food
Food is an essential part of our lives. We cannot survive without a month of food! Many of us eat what we are given or take out some food...
Make Your Own Edible Glass
"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them." ...
Make Your Own Rock Candy
"Teaching is the highest form of understanding." -Aristotle Have fun with this simple science...
Learn About the Process of Photosynthesis
What is photosynthesis? First, lets start off by breaking the physical word into 2 parts: "Photo" and "synthesis". Photo means light and...
Why Do We Need Plants?
Humans and plants have always depended on each other. Even though we encounter plants everyday on the streets, the park, or at our homes,...
Secret Ink - Become a spy like Black Widow and send secret messages
"It is always the simple that produces the marvelous. " ...
Coding Interactive Group Activity
"Science is magic that works." - Kurt Vonnegut This...
Yield the Powers of Thor at Home!
"Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will." -...
DIY Bouncy Ball
"A ship in port is safe, but this is not what ships are built for. Sail out to sea and do new things." ...
DIY Spaghetti Towers
"Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow." ...
DIY VOLCANO
"We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so...
DIY WIND METER
" Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing."- Wernher von Braun Did you know that wind is caused from the difference...
Homemade Lava Lamps
"If you can't make a mistake, you can't make anything." - Marva Collins Here is a simple, fun experiment that children can enjoy doing at...
Tornado in a Bottle
Tornadoes can whip up winds so large they can carry cars! But did you know you could also but a tornado (or a tornado-like spiral) in a...
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