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Science Buddies: Diy Mini Propeller Car
Build your own mini propeller car with craft materials and a simple circuit in this fun STEM activity.
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Science Buddies: Build a Mini Led Lightsaber
Build your own mini LED lightsaber with a straw in this quick Star Wars-themed STEM activity.
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Science Buddies: Rainbow Candy
Make your own rainbow candy in this fun STEM activity. You will do it without using any food coloring. Instead, you will use a light-bending phenomenon called diffraction.
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Science Buddies: Build a Rubber Band Paddle Boat
Build your own bathtub or pool toy from simple craft materials in this fun activity. You will build a rubber-band-powered boat that can zip across the surface of the water after you wind up the rubber band.
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Science Buddies: Test Your Foods for Starch
There is a simple chemical test that you can do to detect starch, which involves an iodine solution. The iodine solution turns any food that contains starch dark blue. Try this activity and watch it in action yourself.
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Science Buddies: How Big Are the Planets in Our Solar System?
This activity explores the relative size of the eight planets that circle around the Sun.
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Science Buddies: Explore Enzyme Activity With Toothpicks
In this activity, you will simulate an enzymatic reaction and explore what factors affect the activity of an enzyme.
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Science Buddies: Stargazing for Satellites
Did you know you can see many satellites with the naked eye? Try this activity and find out for yourself!
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Science Buddies: Bridge Building Bonanza: Which Design Wins?
In this activity, you build and test two types of bridges: a simple suspension bridge and a beam bridge. Which bridge design is stronger?
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Science Buddies: Gingerbread House Stem Challenge
In this activity, you will become an engineer and design and build a gingerbread house that must fulfill specific design requirements.
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Science Buddies: Make Your Own Seismograph
A seismograph is a tool scientists use to record earthquakes and measure their strength. In this activity you will build your own seismograph using simple materials.
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Science Buddies: Build a Bathtub Toy Raft Powered by Surface Tension
In this science activity, you will make a little toy raft that is powered by surface tension, and use your vessel to investigate how surface tension works.
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Science Buddies: Make a Fire Snake
With a few simple ingredients, you can create a "fire snake" that appears to grow out of nowhere. Although it looks magical, no magic is involved-it is all because of a chemical reaction.
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Science Buddies: Bake Your Ice Cream
This activity will teach you how it is even possible to bake ice cream in a hot oven and have it come out frozen.
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Science Buddies: Program Your Own Covid 19 Simulator With Scratch
This activity uses the kid-friendly programming language Scratch to write a simulation that uses bouncing dots to represent healthy and sick people. The simulation will show how we can take measures to slow the spread of a transmissible...
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Science Buddies: A Sweet Earthquake Shake on Landfill
In this activity, you will build a sweet building on a homemade shake table and find out how an earthquake impacts buildings constructed in landfills.
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Science Buddies: Write and Read Braille
There is a special writing system for the visually impaired called braille. This activity will show you how to read with your fingers.
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Science Buddies: Make a Hygrometer to Measure Humidity
Learn how to make a hygrometer to measure the humidity level in the air.
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Science Buddies: Measure the Pressure
Scientists have developed an instrument called a barometer that can measure atmospheric pressure. In this activity, you will find out how a barometer works by building one yourself.
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Science Buddies: Measure Up With a Homemade Thermometer
In this activity, you will make a liquid thermometer to track how temperatures vary with location, indoors or outdoors.
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Science Buddies: Warm in the Sun
Do you think natural materials also heat up in the sun, or only man-made materials? Do this activity to find out.
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Science Buddies: Build the Best Paper Bridge
Find out what makes a bridge strong in this fun activity as you build simple bridges with paper and test to see how much weight they can hold.
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Science Buddies: Build a River Model!
In this activity, explore the distinct characteristics of a river by creating a river model inside a pan with sand, pebbles, and real water.
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Science Buddies: Solubility Science: How Much Is Too Much?
In this science activity, you will find out how much of a compound is too much to dissolve.