Super Fun Science

The day is finally here everyone!

After many months of development we are proud to present Dollar Store Science.

This series of lessons brings a solid foundation of science understanding to you and your children. We split it into 4 separate mini-series consisting of 3 basic “lessons”.

For each mini-series we’ll send you a few emails that will point you back to SuperFunScience.com’s website. On those pages there will be a short lesson, an experiment and a quiz. A video accompanies the entire day so you can follow along with the lesson and the experiment.

All of these experiments will utilize materials you can either find at home or pick up at the discount store for a few dollars. That’s where the name “Dollar Store Science” comes from! You don’t need to spend hundreds of dollars to get your children interested in learning science!

Each mini-series is on sale separately for $12.95US or you can purchase all four mini-series for $42.00US…

Except this week I want to offer everyone FIVE DOLLARS of the complete package. Simply enter the coupon code “A31369CFA2″ for five dollars off of the entire Dollar Store Science series.

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Here’s what the series consists of:

• Physics
  • Temperature Density
  • Evaporation and Temperature
  • Surface Tension
• Chemistry
  • Chemical Pollutants
  • Oil-Water-Detergent
  • Chemical Density
• Biology
  • Transpiration
  • Plant Food
  • Osmosis
• Earth Science
  • Erosion
  • Orbit
  • Water Cycle

As you can see, we spent some time deciding what lessons to include in this program. What do you think we should do next? Let us know by using our contact form HERE.

November 11th, 2008 | Tags: dollar store science | Category: Ask a Question, Biology, Chemistry, Life Science, Physics, Site News | Comments Off

The Pizza Experiment for Dinner?
For most parents, the thought of putting kids, and the hot surfaces and sharp edges of cooking, in the same room is a nightmare. When safety is observed, the kitchen can be the best laboratory!
Teaching your kids good safety habits in your home will translate to safety in their science class. [...]

October 16th, 2008 | Tags: cooking, cooking science, fun cooking science, Fun Science, Kids, kids experiments, kids science, pizza, pizza experiment, pizza recipe, pizza science, Science | Category: Chemistry, Experiments, Parents | Leave a comment

Well, that was a disgusting week for us to get through…  Parasites = Yuck.
Next up… Pulleys!  Pulleys are everywhere you look and we’ll get into the details of these simple machines.
But first let’s recap some of the other science stories we found this week:

September 23rd, 2008 | Tags: Ant Species, Flourescent Fish, liquid titan, Parts of the body | Category: Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry, Physics | Leave a comment

Let us look at a brief history of water pollution, where it came from, and what are the factors that lead to water pollution.

September 15th, 2008 | Tags: easy science experiments, Fun Science, kid science, science experiments, science experiments for kids, science for kids, science news for kids, science projects, Water Pollution, water quality | Category: Biology, Chemistry, Life Science | Comments (1)

Sometimes what looks like clean water isn’t clean at all. If it looks dirty because there are some minerals in it it may not taste good but might be perfectly OK to drink. It might also be poisonous even when completely clear and odor free.

To clear this up (pun intended) Rick got a lesson in water quality from Michael Christophetes from The Granite Inspection Group (http://www.gigrp.com/). Mike is a home inspector and tests people’s drinking water often. In this short video he explain’s to Rick the what, where and how of what he usually finds out along the way… and then Rick drinks something that looks nasty.

Don’t do that at home unless you have professional water testing equipment!
-Enjoy!

September 14th, 2008 | Tags: easy science experiments, Fun Science, kid science, science experiments, science experiments for kids, science for kids, science news for kids, science projects, water chemistry, Water Pollution, water quality | Category: Chemistry, Experiments, Video | Leave a comment

Nasty and Smelly
Bad for everything
Don’t drink that!

September 10th, 2008 | Tags: easy science experiments, Fun Science, kid science, science experiments, science experiments for kids, science for kids, science news for kids, science projects, Water Pollution, water quality | Category: Biology, Chemistry, Life Science, What's That | Leave a comment

Water pollution is the contamination of water bodies such as lakes, rivers, oceans, and ground water. This contamination may harm humans, animals and plants depending on the contaminated water. If you want to avoid sickness coming form contaminated water, you may need to ensure that you will decrease water pollution from your home.

September 10th, 2008 | Tags: groundwater, kid science, lakes and rivers, water chemistry, Water Pollution | Category: Biology, Chemistry, Life Science | Leave a comment

Solar Power is power that can light up your house,  heat your pool and do other power generating functions with the energy that comes from the sun.  So If the power generated comes from the sun, does this mean that you will not have power to light up your house during the night or during [...]

September 3rd, 2008 | Tags: Alternative Energy, Electricity, Kids, Solar Power | Category: Chemistry, Physics, Technology | Comments (4)

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.

August 29th, 2008 | Tags: easy science experiments, Fun Science, kid science, science experiments, science experiments for kids, science for kids, science news for kids, science projects | Category: Chemistry, Experiments, Physics | Comments Off

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 [...]

August 22nd, 2008 | Category: Ask a Question, Chemistry, Physics | Leave a comment

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.

August 18th, 2008 | Tags: elements | Category: Chemistry, Physics | Leave a comment

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.

August 14th, 2008 | Category: Ask a Question, Biology, Chemistry, Video | Leave a comment

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 [...]

August 13th, 2008 | Tags: easy science experiments, elements, Fun Science, kid science, periodic table, science experiments, science experiments for kids, science for kids, science news for kids, science projects | Category: Ask a Question, Chemistry | Leave a comment

Glowing obviously
Plasma or hot gas?
“Eat at Joe’s”

August 13th, 2008 | Tags: easy science experiments, Fun Science, kid science, science experiments, science experiments for kids, science for kids, science news for kids, science projects | Category: Chemistry, Physics, What's That | Leave a comment

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/

August 12th, 2008 | Tags: Chemistry Games, Education, Physics Games, Science Games | Category: Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry, Games, Physics, Site News | Leave a comment

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 [...]

August 12th, 2008 | Tags: arctic, bacteria, black smokers, crab, crabs, deep-water, earth, environment, Humpback, leviathan, livescience, ocean, shrimp, sulfur, underwater, vents, Video, volcano, Whale | Category: Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry, Life Science, Physics | Leave a comment

Here’s some cool stuff we found on the internet this week:
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Dolphins-Identify-Themselves-with-Names-23078.shtml
Dolphins have names for each other and themselves. Scientists are just beginning to understand the language that dolphins speak to each other. The discovery that they have names is really cool!
http://www.thediscussed.com/workers-uncovering-mummified-dinosaur/243
We know about paleontologists digging up fossilized bones of dinosaurs but this lucky [...]

August 5th, 2008 | Tags: ancient, animal, bones, dinosaur, Dolphins, fossil, language, mummy, paleontologists, Scientists, skin, Video | Category: Biology, Chemistry, Life Science, Physics | Leave a comment

I randomly came across this video today and I thought I would share it with you guys.
It’s a camera zooming in 20 MILLION times magnitude.
That means it’s magnified so much that something 20 million miles away would look regular sized… except it’s concrete.
I’m glad they didn’t do it with something gross.

July 8th, 2008 | Tags: easy science experiments, Fun Science, kid science, science experiments, science experiments for kids, science for kids, science news for kids, science projects | Category: Chemistry, Physics | Leave a comment