Archive for February, 2009
What is Density?
Density is an interesting scientific subject that is sometimes a little bit hard to understand. What is density? Sometimes dense means somebody has a hard head. But in science, dense tells how closely “packed” or “crowded” a particular thing is.
Here’s a way to understand it better. You’ll need two sandwich size zip close bags [...]
Static Electricity Science Project
Static Electricity Science Project – Have you ever heard the saying “opposites attract”? You may or may not agree with it, but in science, it’s true – opposites do attract.
All matter – which is almost everything that you can see – is made up of atoms. Atoms are tiny particles that are the building blocks [...]
Nature Science Project – Bird Watching
Nature Science Project Press Release:
JOIN THE GREAT BACKYARD BIRD COUNT
Count for Fun, Count for the Future
New York, NY and Ithaca, NY—Bird and nature fans throughout North America are invited to join tens of thousands of everyday bird watchers for the 12th annual Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC), February 13-16, 2009.
A joint project of the Cornell [...]
We’ve Been Blogged
To my knowledge, Dr. Gregory Simpson is the very first person who has ever devoted an entire blog post to our site! You can read what he wrote here!
Here’s an excerpt of what he said:
simple science projects that allow your child to begin building basic skills in
-developing scientific hypotheses (a major problem in the [...]
Science Project Customer Comments
We’d like to share a few of the comments we’ve received over the last few months from our 24 Hour Science Project customers.
I would first like to say that I am quite surprised you answered my email. I did not really expect you to. When I originally wrote to you, it was Tuesday evening [...]
The Scienctific Method – Methodically Explained
The scientific method is a way to ask and find the answer to scientific questions by making observations and doing experiments. Depending on which science book you read, there are either four, five or six steps to the scientific method. (Doesn’t sound very scientific, does it…) For the purpose of this post, we’ve decided to [...]