10 Science Activities for Students

If you ever want to try something new with your children, here are some cool science activities to try.  A lot of the materials for these activities can be found right in your own home!

1) Kid Pointz Fun Science Activities: This website has many fun activities for kids to do at home or even in school.  They are hands on and and encourage curiostiy among children.

2) Funology Science Experiments: This is another website with fun activities to do at home.  Many of the objects you will need are found lying around most homes.  There are Physics Experiments, Weather Experiments, Biology Experiments, and Chemistry Experiments.

3) "Saltwater Density Investigation": This is a blog about using saltwater to show how density works.  It also gives a link to her bigger blog which is "A to Z Science," which gives an experiment for each letter of the alphabet.

4) Using Paper Plates to Explore Science: This website gives a lot of different fun science activities to do with paper plates.  It's set up as an A to Z tutorial.

5) "25 At-Home Science Experiments": This blog uses eggs, toothpaste, bubbles, sunscreen, CDs, candles, and many other household objects to explore science in all kinds of experiments.

6) Color Experiment: This website is dedicated to the experiment of "Color Changing Milk."  Using milk, food colors, dish detergent, and cotton swabs, it shows how colors spread out and swirl in the milk.  It gives an explanation for why this is happening and gives some vocabulary to learn as well.

7) "E is for Explore": In this blog, Steve Spangler shows how to skewer a balloon without popping it and also how to poke pencils through a bag filled with water without it leaking out.

8) Science in the Spring: This eHow website gives activities to do outdoors in the spring.  Children can help garden, hunt for bugs, and just observe nature and learn about what's going on.

9) Using Candy to Experiment: This blog gives experiments to do with candy that, in school, could be done closer to the end of the year.

10) Science with ScienceBob: This is a blog that has many fun experiments where you can make something, learn how/why something works, making things float, etc.