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Exciting Product Development - Color Changing Energy Beads Turn Green
I always know that the Spangler Science Product Development Team is going to hit a home run... but I was especially excited when they told me that we were going to have green Solar Beads available for the first time and as the only supplier on the internet. Maybe I went a little overboard suggesting that we find beads … Continue reading…Exciting Product Development - Color Changing Energy Beads Turn Green
I always know that the Spangler Science Product Development Team is going to hit a home run… but I was especially excited when they told me that we were going to have green Solar Beads available for the first time and as the only supplier on the internet. Maybe I went a little overboard suggesting that we find beads that match the colors for every holiday, but, really, who wouldn’t want UV Beads that turn black for Halloween? At any rate, we compromised and came up with some really exciting new kits that you can expect to see coming to SteveSpanglerScience.com in the near future. In the meantime, check out the video below to see what all the buzz is about for these amazing learning tools and check out some of my favorite Energy Bead experiments.
Mentos Ice Cube Exploding Soda Practical Joke - Great Idea… But It’s a Hoax
It’s an e-mail that probably showed up in your inbox… Create an Exploding Drink! The prank is based on the widely known phenomenon of dropping MENTOS® chewy mints into soda to create an erupting geyser. Instead of just dropping the Mentos into soda, the pranksters suggest freezing a Mento in the middle of an ice cube. Serve your friend a refreshing soda drink and garnish with the tainted ice cubes. When the ice cube melts, the Mento is exposed and the soda erupts everywhere.
Great idea, right? I first saw the article in WIRED and blog sites like BoingBoing.net were quick to pick it up. Here’s the amazing part… there are literally hundreds and hundreds of comments about why it should or shouldn’t work, but up until today, I had yet to read about anyone who had actually tried it. If you really understand the science behind the physical reaction of releasing all of the carbon dioxide in the soda, you might guess that this is all a big hoax (not the first science experiment hoax we’ve seen in our inboxes).
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Continue Reading…Multi-Channel Merchant Awards SteveSpanglerScience.com Website of the Year - ACCM 2009
SteveSpanglerScience.com Wins Two Prestigious Multi-Channel Merchant Awards for Outstanding Customer Engagement
After many long months of suspense, the winners of the 24th Annual Multichannel Merchant Awards were finally announced during a special luncheon at the ACCM show in New Orleans last week. The SteveSpanglerScience.com team took home two prestigious awards - the Website of the Year Award for 2009 and the Gold Winner in the Children’s Products category. Among the finalists were L.L. Bean, Hanna Anderson, Harry & David, Orvis and Colorado’s own Ebags.
Senior Writer for MCM, Tim Parry, called this “Steve Spangler’s Best Week Ever…” citing the company’s Guinness World Record event coming just on the heels of receiving MCM Top Awards.
Steve Spangler Science Chief Operating Officer, Jeff Brooks, was on hand to accept the awards. “We are honored that the judges chose our website for these awards. It was truly a joint effort throughout the company and these awards belong to the entire team,” said Brooks after accepting the Website of the Year Award.
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Potatoes Fly at Science Teacher Training in Denver
What happens when you put 150 teachers from 23 states and three countries in the same room for three days with a team of instructors who are over-the-top excited about teaching science? Enthusiasm for making science fun spreads like a virus. Concerns about test scores, curriculum changes or the ever-changing pressures of being a teacher seem to vanish. For three days, these teachers put their worries aside and focus on ways to bring wonder, discovery and exploration back into their classrooms. Here’s a glimpse at what happened at Science in the Rockies this year…
Not all of the participants who come to Science in the Rockies start out loving science. Hilary Vanderveen admits she was a student who didn’t like science all that much, but this experience taught her how to avoid that attitude in her classroom. Vanderveen believes the key is raising the “I wonder factor” in her students’ minds as they approach various scientific questions.
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