3 Super-Simple Summer Science Activities. Summer is here -- a great time to get out, explore nature, and have a little family science fun.
Here are my top three super-simple science demonstrations that mix the wow factor of any good science demo with some nice science exploration. Blobs in a Bottle Got one of those summer storms going through the neighborhood? It's a good time to share the wonders of the lava lamp with your kids while teaching them a thing or two about states of matter and intermolecular polarity . . . that's right, intermolecular polarity.
You will need: A clean, clear, 1-liter clear soda or water bottle170 ml (3/4 cup) of waterVegetable oil (enough to almost fill up the bottle)Food coloringFizzing tablets (such as Alka-Seltzer) What to do: Pour the water into the bottle.Use a measuring cup or funnel to slowly pour the vegetable oil into the bottle until it's almost full. What’s going on? Molecules of water and oil are built differently. The Exploding Lunch Bag No pop? Lunch bag, pre-explosion Film canisters? HowStuffWorks "Learn How Everything Works!". Camp Wonderopolis. ARKive - Discover the world's most endangered species.
Wildscreen's Arkive project was launched in 2003 and grew to become the world's biggest encyclopaedia of life on Earth. With the help of over 7,000 of the world’s best wildlife filmmakers and photographers, conservationists and scientists, Arkive.org featured multi-media fact-files for more than 16,000 endangered species. Freely accessible to everyone, over half a million people every month, from over 200 countries, used Arkive to learn and discover the wonders of the natural world. Since 2013 Wildscreen was unable to raise sufficient funds from trusts, foundations, corporates and individual donors to support the year-round costs of keeping Arkive online. Therefore, the charity had been using its reserves to keep the project online and was unable to fund any dedicated staff to maintain Arkive, let alone future-proof it, for over half a decade.
Despite appeals for support, just 85 of our 5.6 million users in 2018 made a donation. The solar system: quiz. Home - Science NetLinks. The Science Behind the News. Chem Collective - Resources to Teach and Learn Chemistry. Chem Collective is a project designed and maintained by Carnegie Mellon University's chemistry department and the National Science Digital Library.
On Chem Collective you will find virtual labs for chemistry experiments, simulations, visualizations, tutorials, and auto-graded problems. Students and teachers can search the site by resource type or by chemistry topic. Applications for Education Chem Collective offers teachers the option to create their own Chem Collective pages containing resources and activities that they have selected from the Chem Collective library for their students. Online and Offline Fun With the Science of Pickles. Exploratorium is one of my favorite places to look for interesting science lessons, activities, and iPad apps.
If you head to the Explore section of Exploratorium you will find a great mix of online and offline activities that students can do to learn about the science that is around them in their daily lives. Two of the activities that I like that are currently featured on Exploratorium's Explore section are Pickle Lab and Kosher Dill Current. Pickle Lab is an online activity in which students experiment with the quantity of salt, temperature of their pickling solutions, and length of time to make pickles.
In each round of the activity students get feedback on whether or not their chosen combinations of variables will or will not produce a quality pickle. By Request - Ten Helpful Resources for Middle School and High School Math Teachers. Earthquake Topics for Education. Earthquakes for Kids. Animated guide: Volcanoes. Stop Disasters. Forces of Nature. Kids' Games, Animals, Photos, Stories, and More.
Science Games and an Interactive Periodic Table. 12 NASA Apps for Students to Learn about Space. April 16, 2014 Last night while I was watching the total lunar eclipse " Blood Moon", it dawned on me to compile a list of iPad apps that students can use to learn more about space.
Of course there are no better apps to recommend than NASA's. I have gone through all the apps NASA offers and picked out for you the ones below. Have a look and share with your colleages. 1- Spacecraft 3D NASA's Spacecraft 3D is an augmented reality (AR) application that lets you learn about and interact with a variety of spacecraft that are used to explore our solar system, study Earth, and observe the universe. 2- Moon Tours Moon Tours is the mobile version of the NASA's Lunar Mapping and Modeling Portal (LMMP). 3- 3D Sun "3D Sun" lets you carry a virtual window onto today's sun, right in your pocket. 4- NASA Lunar Electric Rover Simulation Welcome to the NASA Lunar Electric Rover (LER) Simulator. 7 Free iPad Apps for Science Lessons. Cross-posted from my other blog iPadApps4School.com I'm preparing to do a virtual presentation for a small district next month.
