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February 11, 2025 6:00 AM
Science Buddies' founder, Kenneth Hess, was an astronaut on Blue Origin's NS-25 suborbital spaceflight. From setting up a spacecraft simulator at home to doing zero-g training, here are some of the steps he took to prepare for this once-in-a-lifetime experience—and science projects students can do to explore how astronauts train.
Photo: Ken Hess (right) did zero-g flight training with daughter Amber (left) (who wrote many resources for Science Buddies) in…
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February 6, 2025 8:06 AM
Follow the 10 steps below to do the 2025 Science Buddies Engineering Challenge with your students! The Rocket Catcher Challenge is a fun and accessible space science activity for students in grades K-12.
The 2025 Rocket Catcher Challenge is an exciting way to have students try engineering. As they design, build, test, and improve their rocket catcher devices, students will be using the engineering design process, engaging with relevant, cutting-edge…
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February 3, 2025 6:00 AM
Give student science and engineering activities a creative Valentine's Day twist with these 12 free STEM projects, from paper circuit Valentines to invisible ink messages and dancing candy hearts!
Be My STEM Valentine
With a bit of creative thinking, it's easy to give favorite STEM activities a new spin and irresistible Valentine's Day flair. See our suggestions below for an assortment of science and engineering activities that can be done with…
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January 30, 2025 8:00 AM
February is Black History Month. Learn more about some of the many African American scientists and engineers who have made important contributions to science history.
Black History Month: 40 Scientists to learn more about!
Update! This post has been updated for 2025 to include additional African American scientists and engineers.
In honor of Black History Month, we highlight 40 African American scientists and engineers who made important…
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January 23, 2025 8:00 AM
Thinking about the 2025 Rocket Catcher Challenge? Here are 10 reasons this is a great STEM challenge for your students!
The annual Science Buddies Engineering Challenge makes it fun for students to try engineering!
Each year, the Science Buddies Engineering Challenge presents an innovative and engaging engineering task and asks students in grades K-12 around the world to use the engineering design process to brainstorm, design, build, and test a…
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January 20, 2025 8:00 AM
Celebrate Lunar New Year and the Year of the Dragon with these free science and engineering activities for enriching hands-on STEM.
What is Lunar New Year?
Lunar New Year (also known as Chinese New Year) begins January 29, 2025. Lunar New Year starts with the new moon that happens in late January or February. Celebrations continue for 15 days and culminate with a Lantern Festival. In Chinese culture, 2025 will mark the year of the snake. There are…
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January 16, 2025 8:08 AM
Elementary school teacher uses Topic Selection Wizard with fourth-grade students to encourage personalized project selection.
Adriane Greene teaches 4th-grade math and science at Inspire Elementary in Denver, Colorado.
The science fair is a hallmark of the Spring semester at Inspire Elementary. All students in grades 3-5 participate and exhibit projects in their classrooms. Classroom winners move on to the school fair, and school fair winners…
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January 2, 2025 8:00 AM
A summary look at the exciting range of cutting-edge science and engineering projects added to our STEM project library in 2024!
Our team of scientists and engineers worked hard all year long to develop engaging and accessible materials to support hands-on K-12 STEM exploration in a broad range of interest areas.
Projects added to our library of student science and engineering projects in 2024 appear in the following areas:
Artificial…
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January 2, 2025 8:00 AM
Plan ahead to bring exciting science and engineering to your students all year long. Our STEM Calendar offers a roadmap for finding teaching materials and hands-on experiments to match with seasonal and calendar events throughout the year.
STEM Calendar — A Roadmap of Monthly Science and Engineering Connections for Events and Popular Themes
We know educators often plan weeks or even months in advance for hands-on STEM experiments and…
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December 27, 2024 8:00 AM
Turn Up the Volume with this Quartet of Noisemaker Science Activities!
Whether you are looking for last-minute ideas for the science classroom before winter break or suggesting fun DIY science ideas for students to explore at home, these hands-on science activities make learning about sound fun—and noisy!
With New Year's celebrations coming, these short science projects are a great way for students to explore the physics of sound and make something they can…
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