When friends and readers talk to me about TinkerLab, they almost always ask me about kids science experiments at home. And with that, process-based experiments like the following magic potion lab inevitably come up. When my three-year old woke up…
STEAM (representing projects that integrate science, technology, engineering, art, and math) is an integrated teaching approach that engages learners to solve problems through problem solving, creativity, and critical thinking. In today’s STEAM project, a prompt from our membership program, TinkerLab…
I have yet to meet a kid who isn’t crazy for slime. We first made slime when my daughter was two. It was such a hit that we printed up the recipe (download it here) and I published it in…
My kids love fun science experiments. While cooking breakfast the other day, my three-year old asked about making concoctions with the breakfast supplies. While I’m all for mixing up ingredients with kids, I wasn’t prepared to have a lot of good…
Have you seen the new OK Go video, The Writing’s On the Wall? Holy Smokes, people — if MC Escher were alive today, this is the sort of thing he would have come up with. All of OK Go’s videos…
Are you in the market for some science fair project ideas? Well, hopefully this post will have you covered. These twelve science experiments encourage children to test, tinker with, experiment, hypothesize, and evaluate various properties and phenomena. Science Fair Project…