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September 13, 2007
It’s official… I’m flying out to be a guest on the Ellen DeGeneres Show next week. Back in April of 2006 when a producer on the show originally contacted our office, I asked for your suggestions on experiments to do with Ellen. Lots of people suggested my Smoke Rings demo and Ellen might have taken your suggestion (hint, hint). Let’s just say that our office was filled with lots of smoke today as someone practiced shooting cups off of everyone’s head. We’re told that the air date will be next Friday, September 21, 2007. More to come.
Tags: Ellen Degeneres, Ellen Degeneres Show, experiments with ellen, giant smoke rings, Science, science experiment, Science Experiments, Science Video, shooting cups, Smoke Rings, steve spangler, Steve Spangler Science, teaching science, The Ellen Show
Filed under: In the News
July 11, 2007
Dropping a roll of Mentos into a bottle of soda used to be something that kids did for fun. Now adults are getting into the act. I opened my e-mail and received these cool pictures from the organizers of the event that took place on July 10th in Flower Mound, TX. Representatives from the Guinness World Records certified the record-setting effort, which went off at 6:30 pm inside the Circle R Ranch Rodeo Arena where 850 independent sales representatives from Books Are Fun, a Reader’s Digest Company, simultaneously dropped Mentos into 850 two-liter bottles of soda using the Geyser Tube Toy. The previous Mentos geyser record was set on May 24, 2007 in Cincinnati, Ohio when 504 Mentos-and-Coke geysers were set off. Watch the Video: The Largest Number of Simultaneous Mentos Geysers Please remember that you’re looking at 850 screaming adults… not kids… running away. Yes, learning is fun for people of all ages.
Tags: 504 Mentos and Coke geysers, Guinness World Records, Mentos, Mentos and Coke geysers, Mentos and soda, Mentos Experiement, Mentos Geyser, mentos geyser record, Science Video, steve spangler, Steve Spangler Science, The Largest Number of Simultaneous Mentos Geysers, YouTube video
Filed under: Mentos Geyser
July 11, 2007
I love Halloween. One of my favorite activities is to “carve” pumpkins using a simple reation inside the fruit. First, you carve the face then carefully replace pieces. After creating a reaction by generating a gas inside and igniting it (ask your local chemistry teacher for the details) the face pieces are blown off with a small explosion. Halloween is more than 100 days away and I just couldn’t wait. So I initiated the new weather anchor at the local Denver television station by introducing her to carving watermelons. The problem was, we didn’t really carve the watermelon, it exploded. Watch the Video to see how we skipped right over the carving and went straight to exploding.
Tags: Chemistry, Denver Television station, exploding watermelons, explosion, halloween, high school science fair projects, mad scientist, middle school science fair projects, pumpkin carving, pumpkin carving patterns, Science Education, science experiment, science fair experiments, science fair projects, science fair projects for kids, science fair topics, science for kids, Science in the Rockies, Science Teacher, science teachers, Science Video, steve spangler, Steve Spangler Science, watermelons
Filed under: Teaching Moments
July 8, 2007
Okay, it’s not science… but I’m so proud that I just had to share it. Mark and Scott are our twin 5 year old boys who have both taken a liking to magic. It probably doesn’t hurt to see their brother Jack (who is now 8 years old) performing his magic tricks on stage. I was recently invited to be a featured speaker at the SPLASH Summer Conference presented by Frog Street Press in Dallas, Texas. Mark and Scott performed this trick on stage in front of almost 1,700 teachers and they had a ball. The boys couldn’t understand why everyone was getting up to leave at the end of their trick. You’ll see why.
July 8, 2007
Jack is 8 years old and likes to perform (he must get that from his Mom). Three years ago, the owners of Frog Street Press invited Jack to accompany me to their amazing summer conference for teachers called SPLASH. I helped Jack perform his first magic trick in front of a large audience (about 1,200 teachers) and that’s all it took. The Frog Street Press people were kind enough to invite us back this July, and Jack was ready to hit center stage. Jack’s routine is an original twist on a classic magic trick you might have seen performed by another magician using pom-pom balls. The audience in this video consisted of almost 1,700 early childhood educators (primarily pre-K through 2nd grade). Here’s Jack…
Tags: Frog Street Press, General, jack spangler, magic, Magic Trick, pom pom balls, pom poms, Science Education, science experiment, Science Teacher, Science Video, SPLASH, steve spangler, Steve Spangler Science
