Surprise School Assembly Teaches Elementary Students How to Make it Snow at Home!
When you spend your days processing orders, building cool products and shipping out hundreds of boxes, it's easy to lose track of the people (young and old) who are playing with all of these science toys. Today, our staff got the opportunity…
Pilots for Kids – Northwest and Delta Pilots Share Cool Science Demonstrations
Every week our customer service team shares cool stories that our customers share over the phone or through e-mail. Zarah Brown (@ZarahwithaZ) shared a story from the wife of a Northwest/Delta Airlines pilot who participates in a program called…
The NAEYC 2009 Surprise – Science Experiment Requires a Forklift
So, what's in store for this year at the NAEYC annual conference? We have a science surprise for everyone who stops by our booth (#323). While I can't let the cat out of the bag right now, I can give you a few hints. It's totally hands-on…
Reach Them to Teach Them 2009 – Motivating Teachers to Achieve Peak Performance
If you've ever taught a day in your life, you know that the job is both rewarding and exhausting. In an effort to keep our students inspired and motivated to want to learn, sometimes we forget to recharge our own teaching batteries. Amy Crawford…
NASA Bombs the Moon – Collision Easy to See
We're not sure what the big deal is... our students looked through a normal telescope at 5:30 a.m. MST and saw clear evidence of the NASA rocket that bombed the moon in search of ice crystals. Maybe Matt Lauer from the Today Show wasn't looking…
The Best Halloween Science Projects – Follow @HalloweenSci on Twitter
Our Spangler Halloween Science lab is filled with the best spooky Halloween ideas and recipes for your mad scientists and party-goers. If you're on Twitter, it's as easy as following @HalloweenSci to receive our best, latest and greatest science…
Denver-Area Moms Get Shocked at the Spangler Labs
Written by Susan Wells
Over twenty Denver-area home schooling moms visited the Steve Spangler Science laboratories this week for a special Halloween science workshop.
We have never done a workshop specifically for parents. Steve Spangler…
Teachers Who Blog Engage Students on a Higher Level
As part of the Science at Sea experience, I talked about the many benefit of teachers who blog as part of their classroom experience. At one end of the spectrum you have teachers who are using their school sponsored blogs as a way to effectively…
Using YouTube to Teach Science – Videos Inspire a New Generation of Scientists
It's not unusual for our office to get a call or two a week from the media about the Mentos Geyser experiment. Most of the inquires focus on how the reaction works or questions about MENTOS myths. When Tom Whipple from the London Times called,…
Avoid an Audience Riot – How to Write a Great Introduction for Your Next Speaker
As a professional speaker, I've learned over the years the importance of a good introduction and how detrimental a bad intro can be to the start of even a good presentation. We've all probably been in an audience and experienced an introduction…
