Students Learn Mom Was Right – Wash Your Hands
The students at Wilder Elementary in Littleton, Colorado proved that Mom is right, "Wash your hands with soap and warm water!"? The third grade class did an experiment using Petri dishes prepared with agar (a seaweed derivative). Agar is an…
Mentos Geyser Hits the Classroom… But Some Teachers Don’t Get It
It has the potential of being the most popular science fair project of all time. The Mentos Geyser is definitely fun to watch, but some teachers are missing the opportunity to use the activity to teach science. Over the last few weeks, I've…
Mentos Made Best of Web 2006
It's probably no surprise that the Mentos and Diet Coke phenomena made Google's Best of the Web in 2006. We were honored to have a clip of our video included in their year end review.
I think it's interesting to see how the original experiment…