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Your Guide to Science Projects, Fun Experiments, and Science Research

Einstein’s Messy Office

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I enjoyed seeing the office of Albert Einstein as well as the offices of the other brilliant minds shown in the photos below. My first thought was that I must be brilliant because my office is often as messy as these. It just depends on how many projects I am working on. One technique that […]

Bird Beaks

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I love this bird’s hairdo. It reminds me of a time when I told the beautician that I wanted something wild and crazy and then sat back and dozed. When I opened my eyes my hair was about 3 inches long all over my head. I got what I asked for. It was wild and […]

What Is the Scientific Method?

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The Scientific Method is a Problem Solving Process The scientific method is not a set of steps that must be followed in order with fidelity. The scientific method includes Research, Questions, Hypotheses, Experimenting, Collecting Data, Making Conclusions. But, the order is not set in stone nor is there a rule that all the steps are […]

Vortex Bottle

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You can create a vortex by stirring a oit of water with a spoon. But a vortex bottle provides the opportunity to investigate different variables. You can construct your own vortex bottle using instructions here:   VORTEX BOTTLE 1. Making the vortex bottle is part of your research. Other things to research would be to read […]

Decoding of the Periodic Table

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What Do the Numbers on the Periodic Table Mean? The red box is an enlargement of the hydrogen box from the periodic table of elements. The four identified parts for the hydrogen box shown are: 1. H, element symbol:  All elements have a symbol. Some symbols have one letter and some have two letters. The […]

The Age of Radiance

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Shoe Store X-Ray Machine I could  be the girl looking through the eye pieces of this x-ray machine. It seems like only yesterday that with much excitement I looked through an X-ray machine exactly like the one shown in the photo. The machine was in the shoe department and it really did show an X-ray […]

A Tale of Seven Elements

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Sam Lemonick’s review of Eric Serri’s book, “A Tale of 7 Elements” captivates the heart of the book. You will enjoy this review almost as much as you will love Eric’s book. Sam Lemonick  “In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue,” and discovered America. Or rather, he was the first European to reach America, where millions […]

Energy: Radiation

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Electromagnetic radiation (EMR) is a stream of photons each traveling at the speed of light. Photons are massless bundles of light energy. The higher the energy of photons the more they behave as particles and can be harmful. The symbol shown with what looks like three blades of a fan notifies you that the radiation […]