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Science news for grade school students. Published by the non-profit company Science Service.

It sounds like the perfect terrorist weapon, but it is a toy that teaches the principles of electrochemistry. It's also a high-tech squirt gun. The Plastic Hydrogen Bomb uses electricity to break apart water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen. Then it uses a spark of electricity to explosively recombine the gases into high pressure steam, which propels a stream of water high into the air. The construction is a little more difficult than the other toys in this book, but the skills learned by building this toy can be put to good use building many other devices and works of art.

Below are listed a number of science projects and energy activities for students, K-12. Each of them have a short description on this page and then a link to the actual activity. Some activity sheets will need to be downloaded or printed with your Web browser software. Some activities require help from an adult. Project categories include Chemical/Stored Energy Projects; Electricity Projects; Geothermal Energy; Hydro-Power/Water Energy Projects; Nuclear Energy Project; Energy Conservation; Solar Energy Projects; Transportation Energy; and Wind Energy Projects.

Science Toys You Can Make With Your Kids. Make toys at home with common household materials, often in only a few minutes, that demonstrate fascinating scientific principles. To make it easier to build some of the toys described in the book we have a catalog of parts and kits.

WELCOME to the best Science Project site on the Web. Scifair.org is the premiere resource for help with science fair projects, science fair ideas, tips on carrying out science fair experiments, and creating winning science fair projects. Whether you need a science fair project idea, or help with any science experiment you are already doing, we can help you. Sponsored by the Society for Amateur Scientists (http:www.sas.org).

Wonderville.ca is an interactive, virtual learning environment where children, youth and families can explore amazing activities, scientific experiments, cool career videos, Ever Wonders and printable Science@Home activities. This award-winning website showcases Wonderville, a colourful community where charming characters, including Marie, Tommy, Crash the robot and Proton the cat, take users on exciting adventures that explore science learning. Surf to Wonderville.ca to begin your adventure.

The hands-on science activities in WonderNet are adapted from The Best of WonderScience, Volumes 1 and 2, the hands-on school physical science activity books for teachers and students published by the Education Division of the American Chemical Society. The National Science Education (NSE) Standards encourage students to do science, not just to read or hear about it. Since science is a process, not just a collection of facts, students should be encouraged to do what scientists do: ask questions, make predictions, design and modify experiments, make observations, and draw reasonable conclusions. WonderNet activities give students opportunities to engage in these processes. Subjects include: Architecture, chemistry, physics, plant science, earth science.

In our SkyServer Projects, you will learn science by studying the 180 million stars and galaxies of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) - the same objects that professional astronomers study. Most of these objects have never been seen before by human eyes.

Need some help getting started on a project about nuclear energy? Youve come to the right place. Choose a topic. How nuclear energy works. The benefits of nuclear energy. The benefits of nuclear technologies. How a nuclear power plant works. Why a nuclear power plant is safe. Nuclear power plant designs. Uranium production and fuel manufacturing. Managing radioactive waste. Statistics, statistics, statistics. The future of nuclear energy. The history of nuclear energy. Lessons learned from the Three Mile Island accident. The Chernobyl accident. Quotes on nuclear energy.

Volcano watch: mapping new lava, Volcano facts, Mount St. Helens, Pele: The volcano goddess, Disaster intensity scales, Water, wind, and earth game, Things to know, Pets and disasters, Photos, Disaster supply kit, How to protect your home from disasters.

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute invites curious kids to explore biology... on screen, off screen, and in between. Eat roots? Eat stems? NO WAY!!! Leap into our plant-parts salad. Meet the dustand other strange stuffin your air. Do we really breathe this? Why are snakes like lizards, and monkeys like moose? Butterflies
don't look like caterpillars. What's the connection?Dive into a miniature worldwithout a microscope.

A comprehensive guide to creating your science fair project. Includes everything you need to know about creating a science fair project, a list of project topics to help you get started, and websites and books you can use for research.

Are you looking for some help with a science fair project? If so, then you have come to the right place. The IPL will guide you to a variety of web site resources, leading you through the necessary steps to successfully complete a science experiment. If you have never done a science fair project before, it has been a while, or you just want to be sure you do a really great job be sure and look at the following websites for tips on what makes a good project before doing anything else. This way you will know ahead of time what will be expected of you.

Math games for kids. Can you win all 25 games?

When I was a kid my parents got this six-LP set of science-themed folk songs for my sister and me. They were produced in the late 1950s / early 1960s by Hy Zaret and Lou Singer. Zaret's main claim to fame is writing the lyrics to the classic "Unchained Melody" for the 1955 movie "Unchained", later recorded by the Righteous Brothers and more recently used in "Ghost". Three of the albums (the best three in my opinion) were performed by Tom Glazer, semi-famous 1940s folk musician and somewhat of a lyricist himself (he wrote "On Top of Spaghetti"). The Singing Science lyrics were very Atomic Age, while the tunes were generally riffs on popular or genre music of the time. We played them incessantly. In February 1998 I found the LPs in my parents' basement. I cleaned them up, played them one last time on an old turntable, and burned them onto a set of three CD-R discs. In December 1999 I read the songs back off the CDs and encoded them into MP3, so now you can hear them on the web. They are available at either 32 Kbps (about half a megabyte each) or 160 Kbps (about two megabytes each). The higher-quality MP3 versions were encoded by Ron Hipschman.

Energy Quest is the award-winning energy education website of the California Energy Commission. Energy is an integral part of our daily lives. Without energy our society would decay into pre-historic savagery. Teaching an "energy ethic" to conserve finite resources is essential to our energy future, which is currently dependent on fossil fuels. We also must rely on our youth to help us create new ways to harness the elemental forces of our planet and the universe. They are tomorrow's scientists and inventors. They will discover new means of energy production and innovative ways to use less energy. We hope Energy Quest will answer their questions and spur creativity and imagination.

An interactive resource for elementary, middle school, and high school students.

What's materials science? You could call it the study of stuff! Just about everything you use every day - the shoes you wear, the dishes you eat from, the CDs you listen to, the bike or skateboard you ride - it's all made of different kinds of stuff. Understanding how that stuff is put together, how it can be used, how it can be changed and made better to do more amazing things - even creating completely new kinds of stuff: that's what materials science is all about. Explore materials with these fun activities!

The StarChild site is a service of the High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center (HEASARC), Dr. Nicholas E. White (Director), within the Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics (LHEA) at NASA/GSFC.