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Science Friday partners with educators and scientists to create free STEM activities, lessons, and resources for all learners.
Life Under a Rock: Bacteria in Extreme Environments
Explore the dry, dim world of hypolithic or "under rock" cyanobacteria and measure and compare colony growth in deserts around the world.
What Do Cochlear Implants And Hearing Aids Sound Like?
Learn how hearing aids work, then conduct your own test to determine whether hearing aids can improve speech recognition for cochlear implant users.
Reinventing the Wheel (for Mars)
Design and test different wheels on a basic rubber band-powered vehicle, with the goal of improving stability, traction, durability, and load-bearing ability.
Tessellation and Miura Folds
Make an origami fold that can compress rigid materials, and study the tessellation it creates!
Science Friday Spoonfuls
Classroom-ready doses of current science, technology, and engineering stories.
Make a Kite With Physics
Build a delta kite and explore some of the forces involved in flight. Challenge your design skills to improve your kite's stability in the air.
Measure the Rotational Speed of a Toy
Make a paper toy that spins thousands of times per minute, and then measure, and try to modify, its speed.
Embark on a 360-Degree Geologic Expedition
Learn how to decipher some of the physical processes that shaped the land structure, or “geomorphology,” of parts of California in this virtual field trip.
Memories in the Mud
Create a simulated sediment core and use it to identify the number of tropical cyclones that swept through the area near Belize's Blue Hole. Learn how scientists use sediment cores to get information about weather events dating back 1500 years.
Investigating Community Food Webs: The Ecological Importance of Spiders
Students design and construct their own webs out of yarn and paper plates, test how effective they are at capturing Ping-Pong “pests,” and see how the removal of pests affects crop yield.