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Can Diaper Gel Stop Hurricane Rita?
My inbox was flooded today with emails about a Fox News story that ran earlier today. Can Diaper Gel Stop a Hurricane? Fox News reports that a Florida businessman thinks he has a way to stop Hurrican Rita using the superabsorbent polymer found…
Water Wizardry Kit Earns Teacher’s Choice Award
SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH - A hands-on chemistry kit developed by Steve Spangler Science for Be Amazing! Toys won one of the most coveted awards in the educational market - the Teacher's Choice Award. The science kit called Water Wizardry teaches…
Make $1000 writing a lesson plan… JUST DO IT!
When opportunities like this comes knocking... answer the door! Teachers are encouraged to enter lessons for grades K-8 that highlight innovative investigations and exciting experiments on the subject of chemistry for an opportunity to win…
Floating Bowling Balls
Some of my television segments get more email feedback than others... and this one got a ton. Why? Probably because most people don't know that you can make a standard, regulation size bowling ball float in water. Yes, you can make a bowling…
Indonesian boy flies to Colorado to assist with Spangler Science
About six months ago, 12-year-old Harry Lee contacted me via email. He said he found the "Spangler Science" section on 9NEWS.com and started his own science club in Indonesia. Harry watches the experiments on his computer and then re-creates…
Lawsuit filed in district court
This is kind of thing you keep private, but that all changed when I got a call from a newspaper reporter last Thursday who had questions about the lawsuit we filed just two days prior. The story ran in the Denver Post on Friday, August 19th,…
Hands-on Science Boot Camp 2005 – Mission Accomplished
Ninety-nine elementary teachers were called into action July 27-28, 2005, at the Hands-on Science Boot Camp to explore new and creative science integration strategies for making science education come alive in their classrooms. Named Operation…
Science Boot Camp – Teachers get a lesson in making learning fun
FALL IN! That's what 99 elementary teachers did as they "reported for duty" at the Hands-on Science Boot Camp in Denver. The purpose... to explore new and creative science integration strategies for making science education come alive in their…
Launching Potatoes on the Morning Show
Over one million viewers tuned in to learn how to spice up their 4th of July activities by making Steve Spangler's potato gun. The original potato launching segment that aired a week earlier on the 9NEWS 4 O'Clock show prompted viewers to email…
Amazing Optical Illusion
Here's an amazing optical illusion from from Zack Lynch who has a very interesting blog called Brain Waves.
Believe it or not, your eyes are making the wheels move... it's not animated! To test this, stare at one spot for a couple seconds and…