Have a Blast This Spring With ‘100 Backyard Activities’
Delight your children and encourage an early love of nature and science with this brand-new book, ‘100 Backyard Activities’ by Colleen Kessler.
Continue ReadingDelight your children and encourage an early love of nature and science with this brand-new book, ‘100 Backyard Activities’ by Colleen Kessler.
Continue ReadingHow can anyone be engaged in creative action without active involvement? Squishing the clay allows your hands to shape it. Taking an example issue, “lack of family time,” Rebecca Angel shows creativity in action.
Continue ReadingLittle Passports: Science Expeditions is a subscription service aimed at kids aged nine and up that introduces a new scientific field every month.
Continue ReadingBats: these nocturnal mammals are under appreciated and misunderstood. In this new graphic novel from the Science Comics series for grade-school, learn about these necessary pollinators and insect eaters from around the world.
Continue ReadingIn celebration of Charles Darwin Day, here are five interesting facts about the father of evolution.
Continue ReadingTo celebrate The UN International Day of Women and Girls in Science, GeekMom has 13 of the greatest fictional female scientists who inspire us!
Continue ReadingCreativity is not just for the performance arts. Anyone can learn the creative process, and getting your kids started young will lead to positive life habits. Join Rebecca Angel as she looks at the science-backed facts of creativity.
Continue ReadingIf you or your kid likes science jewelry, education, or subscription boxes, Sci Chic deserves a look.
Continue Reading‘Timeline’ is a cute card game that’s all about getting your dates in a row.
Continue ReadingScience is awesome. And also gross.
Continue ReadingVisit the ‘Avatar’ planet of Pandora with your family in this new exhibit that brings the movie to life.
Continue ReadingA group of high school students in Australia has recreated a key ingredient in Daraprim for a fraction of the cost claimed by the company distributing it.
Continue ReadingThere are still books—even new books—out there that help feed our curiosity with more questions and the answers to those questions. Here are two new ones that fill that role.
Continue ReadingLittle Passports: Science Expeditions introduces kids age nine and up to science through a new monthly delivery service.
Continue ReadingPhET, the good folks who have been bringing us free, interactive science and math simulations for years, now have an app, providing STEM education at its best.
Continue Reading‘Buchla and Singing’ is a catchy synthpop album by Reed & Caroline with a science bent.
Continue Reading‘Science Wide Open’ is a set of three children’s books about famous women in science. Divided into Chemistry, Biology, and Physics, each book follows a curious girl as she explores science as she learns about famous women and their contributions.
Continue ReadingFire! What would humanity be without it? Not much. Check out this month’s Procrastination Destination and spend a few minutes learning about fire, flames, and, of course, everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked!
Continue ReadingEarly science education should be far more hands-on and fun. It’s important to foster a love of science in the early years.
Continue ReadingI’m no particle physicist, and I am unlikely to ever enter CERN laboratories. But for one brief, shining moment, I could imagine being there. All for the price of a museum ticket.
Continue ReadingCan you get a good science education at a con? We talk with the head of the science track of Dragoncon to explore this new trend, engaging fans, kids, and parents in the wide world of science.
Continue ReadingGive your brain some exercise in the Mindbender Mansion at the Orlando Science Center.
Continue ReadingWith all the monthly box subscriptions available on the market these days it can be tough to choose. As an educator mom and unexpected homeschooler, we have tried a number of monthly subscription kits over the years. Some are fantastic and some are anything but… and then there is ‘Groovy Lab in a Box’, which is amazing.
Continue Reading‘Women in Science’, a beautifully illustrated book of ’50 Fearless Pioneers who Changed the World’, releases today. We chat with the author/illustrator, Rachel Ignotofsky, and find out what makes these women special.
Continue Reading“Infinity Plus One” is chill gateway funk…
Continue ReadingGoogle’s Science Journal app gives you a science lab in your pocket, albeit a somewhat limited one.
Continue ReadingTake a mental vacation by yourself or with your kids by meditating. Yes! Meditation will give you superpowers, or at least give you an excuse to curse in the most relaxed way possible.
Continue ReadingScientific endeavor and skulking skulduggery come face to face in this game of experiments and back-stabbing.
Continue ReadingIn this week’s poll, we want to hear what you think is the best of the sciencey science fiction.
Continue ReadingNot getting vaccinated is like playing a game against a team of vampires. They are bigger, stronger, and faster. The odds are in their favor, and it will undoubtedly wear you out to beat them. But even if you do beat them, there’s a good chance someone from that team of vampires will wander off into the stands to attack someone else.
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