Emelie Earns Extra Credit in Science With 100% Recycled Birdhouse!
Heather, who blogs at OhMy StinkinHeck, proudly tells the blogosphere about her daughter Emelie's efforts to earn some extra credit in science (with a great recycling twist). Emelie needed only 2 more points to have a 100% in science, and…
Growing Upside Down Tomatoes
Want to plant some tomatoes, upside down? It's easy using our Water Jelly Crystals - a special superabsorbent polymer that absorbs about 150 times its weight in water and releases it to the plant. Over the years, we've used Water Jelly Crystals…
New Weezer Video Features Mentos Geyser… and Everybody Else!
Weezer has a new video up on YouTube and guess who's in it? EVERYONE. Well, every YouTube star you can think of seems to have a cameo, including the EepyBird Guys doing their Mentos Experiment #771. The song is called Pork and Beans and the…
Make Your Own Lava Lamp – Bubbling Potions
I always love the opportunity to share some of my favorite inexpensive science experiments. One of our favorites at the Spangler Science offices is making your own "lava lamp." We take this one on the road, and it's always a hit with teachers…
Experiment of the Week Goes To Hong Kong
Suzi Wong Swint bought a heating pad in Hong Kong and realized, when she got it home, that the instructions were in Chinese! Fortunately, she remembered what to do to activate the gel and heat the pad, thanks to the Experiment of the Week.
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Swinging Tray of Glasses – Ooops!
Everything was going great. I loaded the tray with four glasses filled with water and told Becky Ditchfield (the lovely meteorologist from 9NEWS) to swing the tray over her head (demonstrating Newton's Laws of motion). It looked like things…
Wild About Tie Dye
Lots of kids learn how to do tie dye, but the fifth graders at Wilder Elementary got a dose of art and science today when yours truly and art teacher extraordinare, Jill Day, approached the activity from a slightly different angle. You won't…
Not Your Typical Mentos Geyser Video
There are literally thousands of online videos featuring the Mentos Geyser experiment, but this video is worth a few minutes of your time. It's a first-class video produced by Mr. Delos Santos and his third grade class at Stone Ranch Elementary…
Win a Hundred Bucks Worth of Science Coolness
Have I mentioned that if you do sign up for the Experiment of the Week, you'll be eligible for our weekly drawing? Oh, and the Spangler team doesn't believe in wimpy gifts. That's why the winner of our weekly drawing gets a $100 gift certificate…
Alex… Astronomy and Music For $200
Someday you might be invited to compete on Jepoardy and you'll thank our trust blog contributors for this nerdy information. Did you know that a musician named Gustav Holst was so fascinated by astronomy that he wrote several pieces of classical…