Kid Crafts: Rainbow Jar Science Experiment
Is there a mini scientist in your house? Encourage curiosity and creativity–and introduce kids to the idea of density–one colorful layer at a time with this fun rainbow jar science experiment!
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Building Atoms with Arduino and Processing
What could be more fun than smashing protons and neutrons together using and Arduino and Processing? Doing it as an arcade game perhaps?
Einstein’s Workshop Showing Off Educational CAD Program
Einstein’s Workshop, based in Massachusetts, has had enormous success teaching 3D design to children as young as 8 while getting them excited about math and programming. Their secret? They’ve developed an educational CAD program called BlocksCAD. The interface is easy for developing minds to grasp, with interlocking blocks and sliders, simple shapes, and quick visual […]
Popular at Public Lab
Out in Zone 5, Liz Barry of Public Lab is sensing strong interest in spectrometry. The reason: “It’s like a Tricorder for $10!” The Public Lab is a community where you can learn how to investigate environmental concerns. Using inexpensive DIY techniques, Public Labs seeks to change how people see the world in environmental, social, […]
Maker, Teacher, Blogger, Mom: Amy Oyler
Amy Oyler has made homeschooling into a project, and homeschooling has made Amy Oyler into a maker. Her blog, The Scientific Mom, tracks Oyler’s hands-on projects as she teaches science to 8-year-old Kat. Amy started writing it to explain this whole homeschooling idea to friends and family, but it has grown in popularity as she […]
Launching $125,000 into space
With three days still left to go on their crowdfunding campaign, the hackers behind the Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project who wanted to recover the ISEE-3 spacecraft and return it operations, have passed their funding goal.
The Darwin Toolbox at the Edinburgh mini Maker Faire
I talked to Philip Boeing from UCL about the Darwin Toolbox—an affordable biotechnology laboratory in a compact toolbox-size container that should allow you to get started doing real DIY genetics at home.
