This week’s STEM @ Home activities explore the wonders of eggs! Using eggs and household items, learn about diffusion, chemical concentrations, engineering, crystalline structures, and bioplastics! After what feels like an eternity at home, spice up those eggs sitting in your fridge and learn along the way. Online Videos: Use these links to educate and entertain!…
Author: Carol Colaninno-Meeks
Exploring Weather Patterns!
Last year the STEM Center developed 40 weeks of at home science activities for parents and teachers. This year, we are revising these activities and reintroducing them. If there is a topic you are interested in, let us know and we can let you know when we will feature that topic. Or, we might add…
Our Favorite STEM @ Home From 2020!
What a year it has been! For our last week of STEM @ Home in 2020, we are highlighting some of our favorite weeks and the videos that went along with those week. In 2021, we will update and revise our STEM @ Home series. If you have any suggestions for improvements, please let our…
Learning about the Sun
The Sun is an essential part of our lives. Without the sun, the Earth wouldn’t have an orbit, the Moon couldn’t orbit the Earth, and there wouldn’t be life on Earth! But, how much do you know about the Sun? Learn more about the Sun’s light and how the Earth orbits the Sun in this…
Voluntary Water Quality Monitoring and RiverWatch
Today’s blog post is brought to you by Xander Kalna. Now that you have learned about different habitats in streams and qualities that are important to them, we are going to talk about stream health. There are many ways to describe stream health based on dozens of variables but the easiest way (and cheapest usually!)…