Pouring Air
Air seems like an unlikely thing to pour. It’s all around us. If you hold an empty glass, you know…
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Make Two Ice Cubes Stick Together
Ice cubes are solid blocks. You can slide them across the table. Or bounce them off each other. They float…
A Safer Solution to Reveal a Lemon Juice Secret Message
I’m still working on the lemon juice secret message project. Many children don’t know how to iron. Their first experience…
How to Reveal Lemon Juice Secret Messages in the 21st Century
How to Reveal Lemon Juice Secret Messages in the 21st Century If you write a message on paper using lemon…
Ambigrams and Palindromes
upside down and backwards 1/9/2021 0 Comments Looking at things upside down or sideways can be fascinating. It’s even more…
Why Mermaid Science?
As a former head science teacher, I’ve had a lot of experience with answering kids questions about science and setting…
Baby Birds
What’s with “The Ugly Duckling”? I’m a biology and chemistry major. Swans never – absolutely NEVER –lay their eggs in…
Mermaid and the Rainbow
Mermaid and the Rainbow I’ve set myself the project of teaching science by telling mermaid stories. This means my stories…