Science Buddies Newsletter: Pack Your Summer with Hands-on Family Science!

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Hands-on Science All Summer Long!

Avoid the Summer Slide: Bring on the Family and Home Science Projects!

Spicing up your family's summer break with science and engineering activities can turn an ordinary summer into something extraordinary. We have suggestions for independent projects to keep your students busy and challenged and hands-on science activities perfect for the whole family, including hula hoops, high-flying film canisters, soda making, tie dye, robots, and more.

Make Science Buddies your summer science destination!

Encourage and Challenge Your Student Engineers

A DIY Carnival of Robot Critters

From plastic cups to upcycled vibrating motors from the junk drawer, inspire your kids with hands-on robotics engineering projects that scale from easy to more challenging. Whether your kids prefer robots skittering about with circuitry exposed or scampering in full costume, we have fun suggestions for robot building activities to get them started and to continue adding to their engineering skills. Check our projects for simple art bots, bristlebots, sophisticated bots you can lead with a flashlight, and more.

Summer Reading with a Science Twist

Science-themed Suggestions for the Read Aloud Crowd

As you make your summer reading lists, add in a mix of titles that introduce scientists, engineers, and science concepts to your young readers and listeners. An inspiring range of wonderful picture books make it easy to supplement your daily reading with great science tidbits and a look at the lives of important scientists.

New Project Ideas

The following Project Ideas and resources were recently added to the Science Buddies library:

We Are Where You Are!

Do You Pin Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math Projects and Resources?

If you are pinning Science Buddies materials at Pinterest, let us know so we can add you to our list of pinners!

Share Your Science Project!

Jumping for Science

For his 8th grade science project, Jonathan Stewart gave the "The Chills and Thrills of Roller Coaster Hills" project a new twist. The local amusement park was closed for the year, so after building his accelerometer (shown in the photo), Jonathan put it to the test on a trampoline for a great physics project exploration of g-force!

Share Your Science Project!

What was your science project this year? Submit photos of your project to Science Buddies, and you might end up featured on the Science Buddies Blog, at Facebook or Google+, or in the newsletter. Let us know--in photos--how your project went!

Congratulations!

Lucky Teacher Wins Elmer's Prize Pack

Congratulations to Kelly Risk, a teacher at Atlantic Shores Christian Elementary in Virginia Beach, VA. Kelly was randomly selected as the winner of a cool Elmer's Prize Pack, courtesy of Elmer's� Products, Inc., for taking part in a recent Science Buddies Teacher Survey.

Thank you to everyone who participated. Your feedback is appreciated!

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