In this activity, students get to dig into the real impact of disinfectant wipes. With one wipe claiming to kill 99.9% of germs and another at 99.999%, does that tiny extra percentage ac...
Updated for 2023!
Saturday, September 23, 2023 at 06:50 UTC (2:50 am EST),
will be the Autumnal Equinox. It is the time of year when an imaginary plane would pass through both the Earth...
Friday evening, September 8th, a powerful 6.8 magnitude earthquake hit Morocco southwest of Marrakech.
What does a 6.8 magnitude earthquake mean? How powerful was that...
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This year, Buffalo, New York, has had more than 100 inches of snow this winter. We imagine that the height of the tunnel to people's homes is getting pretty high. It's hard to shovel new snow when y...
The weather forecasters tell us what the wind chill temperature will feel like. How do they figure out that number? In this activity students use the National Weather System chart ...
Probably most of us have heard of and even used hexadecimal color codes. Don't you wonder why their number descriptions really make sense?
In this activity we first ask students to color in o...
As a snowflake falls from the sky, its crystal grows according to the humidity and temperatures of the air that it passes through.
In this activity, students interpret a graphic that clarifies ...