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Scientific American Magazine Web Site

Who submitted the entry: M. D. Waters

http://www.sciam.com

African Americans in the sciences (age 16-18)

This catalogue looks at the African American men and women who have contributed to the advancement of science and engineering.

	What areas of science seen to be the most common to achieve fame in?
	Pick a scientist and describe their achievement.
	Pick an area of science you would like to work in and describe what you would like to do.

Help your child learn science (age 3-10)

Science 'begins at home' and Helping Your Child Learn Science is an on-line book with information, things to do and how to mesh this with school. For example,

	What can you learn from spearing a potato with a straw?
	Do science as you bake a cake
	What can you learn about capillarity using celery stalks?
	How can you make good use of a visit to the zoo?

Demo of the Day

Simple experiments that you can do at home. Bill Nye the Science guy

How to do an experiment (Age 10-13)

Almost spot on 'Super Science' encourages children and their parents, to do scientific experiments. Beam over to the Super Science Site - science projects and …

	See the section 'What is an experiment?' which helps you to come up with a question to investigate. Work through it and find out what a hypothesis is, how to design an experiment and how to analyse the results.
	Go to the 'Let's Do An Experiment' section and see how you might take a step by step approach when you do an experiment in future.
	Look at 'Everyday Science Ideas for Kids' and choose or think of something you'd like to do. How about finding out what baking soda does? Or finding a way to stop apple turning brown?
	If you're planning a 'school open day' or a special investigation at school use the section on 'How to do a Science Fair Project' to find out how your work should be presented.

Science things to read and do (Age 8-11)

A fun place for children to get curious about science. Worth capturing this (using programs such as WebWhacker etc) for exploration off-line. It's at You Can from Beakman & Jax

	Find out why feet smell with the help of some experiments you can try at home.
	How do eyeglasses help your eyesight?
	See the interactive demos and find out how thermometers work and what smoking does to the lungs.

What did they invent? (Age 10+)

So Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. But what did he also patent that is in widespread use today? Six years after producing the Model T, Henry Ford could drop its price to a third of its original cost. What did he invent to achieve this? And bet you don't know what Erna Schneider Hoover invented? To find out what these and other inventors achieved, visit The Invention Dimension - it's a good and easy read too

Science things to read and do (Age 10+)

Experiments, puzzles, magazines and down-loadable multimedia are promised in Cyberscience - Science on the Web . Browse this for articles of interest - there's not much at present. It comes from CSIRO, Australia's scientific research organisation. This is worth keeping a bookmark on to see if it delivers more in future than this product sampler.

Ask a scientist (age10+)

There are many places you can ask-a-scientist a question on the Internet. You might want to read about 'the greenhouse effect', or about 'mad cow disease' and get an answer you can understand. Or failing that, you can ask a question of your own to what they call The Mad Scientist Network

Ask Dr Science

Want to ask a silly question and get a sillier answer back? Well go to Dr. Science and pass just a little time on this sort of thing:

	Q. If two champagne corks, one made of plastic and one of cork, were popped simultaneously from their respective bottles atop the Leaning Tower of Pisa, would they hit the ground at the same time?
	A. It depends on the brand of champagne. The initial velocity of the cork is directly correlated to the price of the bottle. It would also depend on how well chilled the bottles were. Even the attitude of the person popping the cork enters into the equation.
	Q. Is a periodic table more frequent than an occasional table?

Get the flavour? We'll leave you to look up the answer in the Vault of Knowledge and pass your own verdict of Dr Twat. (Age 9+)

Projects (Age 8-14)

Children who like to build whimsical contraptions out of recycled materials will get some inspiration from this collection of projects. Build-It-Yourself: gallery of projects

Keeping the kids occupied (Age 4-12)

A number of creative ideas for keeping the kids occupied and making things such as finger paint, cinnamon ornaments, silly putty, play slime and a cake that 'sings' as it cooks. These pages for parents' make up for their lack of visual colour with colourful ideas - several that might be culled for young chemistry work. See Kid's crafts

Go it alone and explore these pages of links

Amateur Science page has links to yet more links to do with 'Kids' Science Projects. There is a great deal here and it's worth exploring.