Dry Ice Fun – How to Use Dry Ice at Your Halloween Party
There's just something amazing about dry ice - the solid that turns into a gas. Science teachers call it sublimation... kids call it amazing. Over the years I've presented a number of television segments about using dry ice to make Halloween…
Win 25 Gallons of Green Slime – It's as Easy as Following @HalloweenSci on Twitter
This contest has ended. Thank you for entering. Congratulations to our winner, Melitsa @playactivities!
You'll be the hit of the party if you win 25 gallons of Spangler Slime - that's 95 liters for those mad scientists who love the metric…
Twitter Question: How do You Keep Your Toes From Freezing and Falling Off?
Here's today's Twitter question to our demo team - "Tried the liquid nitrogen cloud we saw you do on Ellen at our museum. Nearly froze our feet off. What's the secret?" Funny thing... we experienced that too. After presenting the liquid nitrogen…
4th of July Cool Science Experiment – Colored Smoke Rings
I'll have to admit that my Trash Can Smoke Rings routine is not only a signature staple in my stage show, but it's become one of my all-time favorite science demos to perform. After presenting my smoke ring routine on the Ellen Show, I received…
Quirkles Co-creator Demonstrates Cornstarch and Water Experiment
As I mentioned in a previous post, it's always fun to stumble across Quirkles videos on YouTube. These fun children's books support connecting science and literature, which is one of our passions around Steve Spangler Science. This week, Quirkles…
Television Science Evangelist Inspired by Spangler Science Experiments
As the first exclusive supplier of the Quirkles books, I was interested to see that Quirkles co-founder Terri Johnson was taking her science experiments to the airwaves... with a distinctively Spangler flair. Donning her Steve Spangler Science…
Hardware Store Science – Secret Messages with Teflon Tape
It's true that I find some of my best experiment inspiration in the hardware store. My team often likes to tell the story about spending five hours at Home Depot before a conference in Atlanta... don't believe everything you hear. This Teflon…
Show and Tell Takes on a Science Twist – Five Year Old Makes Science Fun
If you think back to your “show & tell” days, you probably brought your favorite stuffed animal or action figure to school. But some teachers are raising the bar by turning show & tell into more of a “demonstrate and learn,”…
Rube Goldberg Meets Cadbury Creme Eggs
Thanks to Twitter, this little tweet woke me up last night... and I'm watching it at 3:00 a.m. This has to be the most impressive Rube Goldberg contraption I've ever seen.
What's your favorite Rube Goldberg video?
Incredible Growing Peeps – Easter Science
Every year the color, variety, even flavor of those sugary marshmallow Peeps seems to multiply... I have some theories about what happens on the grocery store shelves when no one is around, but that's another post for a different blog. In…
