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Hands on Science for Kids - Learn by Doing

You’re eating dinner and your child excitedly describes how his teacher took a bucket of water and swung it around without spilling a drop. Your child is talking about centrifugal force! Your child is talking to you!...

By: Lisa Bronart

Science Lessons for Grade 1 on the Five Senses

Many teachers agonize about planning science lessons for Grade 1. They think that the students are too young to take part in science experiments. This is because they associate science experiments with using chemicals and ...

By: Frances Stanford

The Science behind Wind Chimes

Wind chimes have come a long way since their banging, clanging days of old. Today’s precision-tuned wind chimes produce a melody as inviting, sweet, and clear as the song sung by pristine waters cascading down a moun...

By: Stephen Betzen

Back in 1969, when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon, there were no guarantees.

Before facebook, there were other sites for us to collect online friends. So why did Mark Zuckerberg's Harvard dorm-room project amass 900 million members, while others faded into oblivion? Some Be...

An exploratory oil well off the northern coast of Cuba has proved a failure and will be capped and abandoned, Spanish company Repsol said Friday, a disappointment for a cash-strapped nation hoping ...