Science Experiments, Stories, Games, Projects, Videos and More for Kids (and adults too!)
Do you think you can stop water from falling from a glass held upside down with only a porous net used to hold potatoes in a grocery store? Yes friends, it is possible to stop water from falling from a glass just by using a plastic screen -if you’re utilizing the property of surface tension.
This week we answer a question from David in North Carolina, USA.
He asks, “Why do bugs flay around the lite outside on my porch?
Amanda explains on video…
We have a new quiz game for you to try!
Check it out here.
Plutoids, the term given to dwarf planets like Pluto which sit beyond the orbit of Neptune, have just recently received a new addition to the family, Makemake.
Looks like an egg omelet?
Might smell like one too…
Outerspace volcanoes!
For many years education was thought to be something that takes place in school. However, through the years the competition has increased greatly, and parents have started realizing that education is incomplete without third person interference. So, now parents chip in playing their part as an additional teacher or as a guide overlooking the progress [...]
Housecat’s are descended from desert hunters. Should we be feeding them dry food with wheat and rice in it? Many vetenarians are changing their opinion about this lately.
We visited our friend Dr. Michelle Yasson from http://HolVet.net for the straight story. We filmed a video so we could share with you.
-enjoy
ZOT! Experiment time!
We use electricity to power our lamps. How about generating your own electricity to power the lamp? Electrical charge ise transferred from one body to another while rubbing the two bodies. This can be seen when bits of paper are lifted in the air by a comb rubbed onto dry hair.
Electrons are relatively [...]
Mentos and Coke are both popular with kids. Have you ever have tried a combination of the two? According to many of the videos on YouTube that demonstrate a Mentos and Diet Coke fountain, most are still not aware of the science that goes behind this phenomenon. When mint or fruit Mentos are dropped into [...]
Wet and rough
Made for cleaning
Meow?
The elements comprise virtually everything in the universe, from the largest galaxy to the smallest microorganism. If you break down each individual part, cell, or compound, you will end up with an element in its atomic form.
The weather has been beautiful for the past few weeks. Look at this rainbow I caught across the street!
Rainbows are simply stunning if you get a chance to see one in its fullness. It had thunderstormed heavily just a minutes earlier. It was late in the day so the sun was low in the sky [...]
Today we bring you an interesting and easy experiment you can do at home. By doing this simple procedure you will experience examples of water tension, suspending solids in a liquid solutions and also learn a bit about pigments.
Here it is!
Color Changing Milk.
Background:
Milk is a liquid made up water, vitamins, minerals, proteins, and droplets [...]
This week we answer a question we got last week from Mike in Texas, “Why is milk white?” Some people will say that it’s because the fat floating in it (ewww) but they would not be telling you the whole story. IN fact, they are pretty far off base. We sat down and Amanda decided she could better answer this one.
The Periodic Table of Elements is a method of displaying and organizing the chemical elements such as oxygen, nitrogen, and neon. However, the periodic table is much more than simply a list of elements.
The periodic table allows for people to make predictions about many physical and chemical properties. The periodic table is a framework for [...]
Glowing obviously
Plasma or hot gas?
“Eat at Joe’s”
Here it comes!
We just got our first batch of science based games back to share with everyone.
We’ll be adding a new one or two every month so it won’t be long until we have many, many, many.
Check it out! http://superfunscience.com/science-games/
Here’s some interesting articles we found on the internet this week:
http://www.livescience.com/environment/080724-black-smokers.html
What’s hundreds of feet underwater, is hotter than boiling water and in the arctic circle? A field of underwater “black smokers.” Some of these deep-water volcanic vents are teeming with strange life like crabs that eat bacteria that eat sulfur and shrimp that [...]
I’ve been getting a few questions about what our “Daily E-Mail” program for our members is all about. Here’s a quick explanation of how it works.
Members will receive six e-mails a week. Each e-mail will be one of three things.
Some of our e-mails will be small lessons or additional information relating to the main topic [...]
Big and tall, about 4 feet
Likes little fish for lunch
Knee deep at the water’s edge
