Do You Love or Hate Back to School Supply Shopping?
The smell of 24 newly sharpened pencils is in the air - it must be time for Back to School supply shopping.
It's an emotional and expensive time of year for parents. Their babies are taking another step towards adulthood - entering a new…
#SpanglerSelfie Winners!
Well, you've done it!
You've allowed yourself to be sucked in by the selfie craze... and we LOVE IT!! We are ecstatic that you are enjoying Steve Spangler Science product, so much that you have chosen to include them in your #SpangerSelfie!
Our…
Backyard Archaeology
There is genuine archaeology in your back yard; you don't have to travel to Greece, or Pompeii, or the La Brea Tar Pits to discover archaeological artifacts and fossils, you know. More often than you think, these things (maybe not the dinosaur…
Back Yard Geology: Crinoid Stems
There are crinoid stems everywhere; they were once so prolific they covered the bottom of the sea like a crop of wheat! The Midwest was once part of a great prehistoric sea, and where there is a sea, there are sea creatures. Where there WAS…
Blast Back to School with End of Summer Fun!
As the long lazy summer days begin to dwindle and the new school year fast approaches, it's a rush to pack in all of your summer fun.
Wait a minute.., do I see you moping? That is no way to enjoy the last few days of vacation time. Turn…
Science & Music – 4 Fields of Science and Their Tunes
Music makes everything better. While that might not be scientific fact, it’s an opinion that holds a lot of stock, for me. In fact, I believe that certain types or styles of music can make things better to the point of being perfect. We’ve…
School Supplies For All
When I was a little kid, one of my favorite days of the year (besides Christmas Day) was the day the newspaper posted the list of required school supplies, and Mom took us to the drug store to buy them.
I loved looking at that list, and Mom…
5 Viral Science Experiments You Did Not Know We Have Done Already
The term “viral” has undergone quite the makeover since the end of the 20th century. A word that used to have a connotation on par with “bacterial” has now become something that is sought after. Going viral entails that something is…
Science Takes a Summer Vacation – Selfies from the Road
Although our science kits and materials don't sit on the shelves in our distribution center for long, they are still granted a summer vacation, like all of our human staff members at Steve Spangler Science.
Our science kits are also not exempt…
Science and Helping Verbs
I love teaching Einsteinian theory, physics, and non-linear time in my basic writing classes.
Oh, it's called Chapter 10: The Perfect Tenses, but that's just a cover for what it really is: our language's ability to describe complicated…