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Make ‘Elephant Toothpaste’ With Your Kids
This week, I found myself going down a very specific rabbit hole — one in which I watched video after video of people doing the Elephant Toothpaste science experiment. If you’re not familiar, the experiment features the creation of a large, foamy volcano made from water, dish soap, yeast and hydrogen peroxide — commonly referred…
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Students Get The Chance To Experiment In Space
Mission Discovery, a five-day Space and STEAM challenge, is coming to a number of cities around Australia in 2019 and 2020. The program will be delivered by the International Space School Education Trust (ISSET) with a NASA astronaut and a NASA senior manager. Students across Australia in years 7 to 10 will work in teams…
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Five Ways To Get Your Kids Into Science And Technology
Educators and researchers agree early literacy experiences are important for children’s cognitive and language development. But what about STEM? Here are five things parents can do every day to help develop science, technology, engineering and mathematics skills from a young age.
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The Best Way To Teach Kids About STEM Is Wall-Demolishing Robots
This weekend, school students from around the country will be competing in the 2016 FIRST Robotics Asia Pacific final — by besieging a castle with homemade semi–autonomous robots. It’s being billed as self–driving cars meets Game of Thrones and is clearly the coolest thing to happen in science, technology, engineering or mathematics. Which is kind…