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Indoor STEM Activities for Kids

STEM Sport

The Magic of Kitchen Chemistry Chemistry is all around us, especially in the kitchen! It’s a fantastic way to get students excited about science through hands-on learning. This edible activity introduces the magic of chemistry in food science and can easily be implemented at home or in the classroom.

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The Unknown Particles of the Universe

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When the universe was first created, there was an equal amount of matter and antimatter, but currently, there is more matter than antimatter, despite the fact that when they touch they both annihilate. Neutrinos have nearly no mass, have no charge, and travel at near lightspeed, so they are very hard to detect.

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How Did We Get Here? The Tangled History of the Second Law of Thermodynamics

Stephen Wolfram

And indeed particularly in chemistry and engineering it’s often been in the background, justifying all the computations routinely done using entropy. He immediately notes that “the total permutability measure of two bodies is equal to the sum of the permutability measures of each body”.

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San Diego Zoo Global offers more than fun for kids with teacher training

STEMx

Documented trends also demonstrate an overall national decline in completion of natural science degrees, in the granting of doctoral degrees in the sciences, in the authoring of scientific papers and in our share of international patents. . Equally challenging is the predicament of the American science teacher.

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