Where Science and Technology Connect!
For parents, one of the most enjoyable things in life is seeing their child’s eyes light up upon seeing something they totally didn’t expect.
Wouldn’t it be great if such occurrences happened more often?
Well…they can – with a little help from science!
In this article, we describe three safe and fun experiments you can conduct with your child right in your own home…or, at least, in your backyard.
Let’s dive right in! [Read more…]
All children are natural scientists.
Whenever you catch your kid jumping in puddles, banging on pots and pans, or watching their ice cream cone drip slowly onto your brand new couch…just try to keep in mind that they’re simply experimenting with the world around them, and trying to learn something in the process.
Of course, it can benefit your child’s education (and your sanity) to bring some structure into the scientific process at times, as well. While you might think “chemistry” is a subject reserved for high school and college-age students, the truth is chemistry is all around us – and should be explored as early as possible.
With that in mind, here are three fun experiments you can do with your young one to introduce them to a variety of chemistry-related concepts and ideas. [Read more…]
Does your child enjoy looking for clues and solving mysteries? If so, playing crime solving games is a fun and engaging activity!
While playing these games, your child will be working on key academic and soft skills. But, since they’ll be playing at the same time, they won’t even realize they’re learning. They’ll just think it’s lots of fun!
If you’re looking for some crime solving games for kids, here are three for you to consider. [Read more…]
Biology, the study of living things, shouldn’t be boring! From creepy crawlies to magnificent mammals, there is an area that can capture the attention of almost every student.
If you want to set young students up with a sturdy foundation for future biology studies, the way you teach matters. Here are five suggestions for helping them stay excited about biology. [Read more…]
Most parents understand how important it is for their child to always be growing in some way or another.
Which is why, come summertime, many of us worry that our little ones won’t be getting the intellectual stimulation they need to succeed in the coming school year – and long thereafter.
Luckily, your kiddo has become downright enthralled with the idea of attending science camp this summer! [Read more…]
You will need to assemble the following:
Here’s what to do:
How does it work?
Well, vinegar is an acid, and it reacts with the salt to remove what chemists call copper oxide (the stuff that makes your pennies dull).
But there’s more you can do!
Add more pennies to your bowl and count slowly to ten again. When you remove them, don’t rinse them off. Just put them on paper towels to dry. Shortly, the pennies will turn blue/green as something called malachite forms on the pennies.
There’s even more!
Put a few nuts and bolts in the vinegar and watch them carefully; they may turn copper in color. The vinegar will remove copper from the pennies and if there’s enough of it in the vinegar — the copper will become attracted to the metal in the nuts and bolts!