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Science Buddies Needs Your Support
Your Gift Helps Support Hands-on Science for Millions of K-12 Students
Science Buddies resources remain free to use thanks to generous support from individuals and sponsor organizations and companies. Please consider making a donation to Science Buddies this year-end giving season. Gifts of any amount are appreciated. Your contribution will help Science Buddies provide resources for hands-on science, technology, engineering, and math education for more than 15 million students, teachers, and parents in the coming year.
To see how donations of all sizes contribute to our mission, and to read a letter from founder and president Ken Hess about 2013's successes and plans for Science Buddies in the coming year, see our Science Buddies 2013 Annual Update.
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Spotlighted Project Idea: Toothbrush Robotics
Breadboards, Bristlebots, and Family Robotics
Robots that scoot around on toothbrush heads are a great way to get your kids started exploring robotics. We have project ideas that take students from a basic Bristlebot to a more whiz-bang light-following bot that shuttles about on two brush heads and sports a practical on/off switch.
Our blogger put both projects to the test with a small group of kids at home. They succeeded in creating multiple working bots, learned about circuits and breadboards, and had a great time getting hands-on with electronics and robotics as a family. We highly recommend these projects as ones to keep the kids occupied and entertained over the winter break, during snow days, or just for weekend fun!
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Spotlighted Science Project Resource
A student's project display board may be one of the final steps in the science project process for a school assignment or the science fair, but it is an important one. A compelling project display board makes people (and science fair judges) more likely to stop to find out more about the student's project. Encourage your students to use their boards to really showcase the hard work they put into their science projects!
Science Buddies has guidelines and examples to help students as they create their boards. What size font should you use? How big should the board be? What goes on the board? We have answers!
Elmer's Products, Inc., our official classroom sponsor.
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Featured Family Science Activity
Do you like things that are salty? Or do you prefer things that are sweet? How sour is too sour? Do you and your friends agree on how things taste? Follow the directions either for a science project or a family science activity to learn more about your taste threshold for things that are salty, sweet, or sour.
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Encourage Your Students to Share Their Science Project Stories!
We love to highlight stories about student and teacher science project and science fair successes -- just like yours! Have your students submit photos of their projects to Science Buddies. They might end up featured in a success story on the Science Buddies Blog, in the spotlight at Facebook, Twitter, Google+, or in the newsletter. Let us know, in photos, how the project went!
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Science Buddies is a 501(c)(3) charity that offers science resources to students and teachers
free of charge thanks to support from sponsors and donors like:
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