3 ways to keep Science Fun

Elephant toothpaste By taking a container of some kind and filling it with a little hydrogen peroxide then dropping in a solution of yeast and water you can make a fun experiment called elephant toothpaste. This elephant toothpaste is the result of H2O2 (hydrogen peroxide) and the yeast reacting together. The yeast steals a oxygen from the H2O2 and leaves H2O behind while the yeast gets the oxygen it needs to grow. The resulting reaction produces the following: heat (exothermic reaction), water (contained by the bottle container), and a foam that should shoot out of the bottle and expand until all of the H2O2′s spare oxygen has been used.             Science Putty/Thinking Putty…

Why is the Sky Blue?

If you are a science teacher you have heard this question a million times. If you are a student you have asked this question a million times to either: a) test the teacher b) test a parent’s patience or c) because you didn’t get an answer you can understand. It’s easy to feel confused. Explaining why can be as confusing as describing how direct tv satellite works. When teachers start talking about the spectrum of light and refracting of the atmosphere there is a switch in the back of a students brain that tells the student to go to sleep, drool, or roll their eyes into the back of their head. For those students I…