July/August 2010: Born to Build

Scoops
See the difference in barefoot running:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8483401.stm

See more stone-age symbols:
http://www.newscientist.com/data/images/archive/2748/27481201.jpg

Which Nest is Best?
Build an oriole nest:
http://www.learner.org/jnorth/tm/oriole/BuildNest.html
 

May/June 2010: Try, Try Again

Scoops
See flying fists of fruit-fly fury: http://media.caltech.edu/press_releases/13308

Watch an octopus with shells: http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2009/tool-use-in-veined-octopus/

Wings for One

See the Puffin: https://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2010-01/nasas-puffin-aircraft-stealthy-one-man-vtol-aircraft  

See Jetman: http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/episode/flight-of-the-jet-man-3757/Overview/99#tab-Overview

See the Martin Jetpack: http://www.martinjetpack.com/video-gallery.aspx

See the Condor: http://web.mit.edu/invent/www/ima/maccready_video.html

April 2010: Lost & Found

Make a mummy game!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/egyptians/launch_gms_mummy_maker.shtml

Lost sounds
Hear a Parasaurolophus: www.nmnaturalhistory.org/sci_parasaur.html
Hear the first recorded voice: www.firstsounds.org/sounds/scott.php
Hear a rebel yell: http://www.26nc.org/History/Rebel-Yell/rebel-yell.html
Hear a short talk with Rawls, and his recreation of a big group Rebel Yell:
http://hfb.vfhblogs.org/2009/06/the-authentic-rebel-yell/

See a live coelacanth:
www.arkive.org/coelacanth/latimeria-chalumnae/video-00.html

Grow your own Wollemi pine:
www.wollemipine.com

March 2010: Can We Save Them?

Find out more about endangered species and what you can do to help at:
The World Wildlife Federation: http://gis.wwfus.org/wildfinder/
US Wildlife service: http://www.fws.gov/endangered/kids/index.html

Adopt an Animal!
Ask at your local zoo or aquarium, or check out:
World Wildlife Federation: http://www.worldwildlife.org/ogc/species_category.cfm
National Zoo, Washington: http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Support/AdoptSpecies/
Brookfield Zoo, Chicago: http://www.brookfieldzoo.org/ecomv2/adoption/adopf08.asp
Houston Zoo, Houston: http://www.houstonzoo.org/adopt/
San Diego Zoo: http://www.sandiegozoo.org/adopt/animal.html

Frogs!
Explore the world of frogs at: www.exploratorium.edu/frogs
Learn more about the Amphibian Ark: http://www.amphibianark.org/
Watch a documentary about the Amphibian Ark, “A Thin Green Line”
: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/episodes/frogs-the-thin-green-line/video-full-episode/4882/

Help scientsts track frogs and other wildlife:
Wildlife Watch: http://www.nwf.org/WildlifeWatch/

Make a certified native habitat in your backyard:
National Wildlife Federation’s Backyard Wildlife Habitat program: http://www.nwf.org/kidsgardenforwildlife/
or (for grownups) :  http://www.nwf.org/backyardwildlifehabitat

Bats!
Build a Bat House: http://www.nwf.org/gardenforwildlife/bathouse.cfm
Bat House instructions to print out: http://www.batcon.org/pdfs/bathouses/SingleChamberBHPlans.pdf

February 2010: Do You See What I See?

Learn more about telescopes:
www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/galileo/telescope.html

Play with lenses:
http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/magnify/index.html

How does a magnifying glass magnify?

http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/microscopy/simplemagnification/index.html

More about reflections:
http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/reflection/index.html

More about refraction (How does light passing through glass or water bend and make rainbows?):
http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/refraction/index.html

Find out how to make your own Galileo telescope:

https://www.galileoscope.org/gs/

Learn more about light and optics at:

http://www.opticsforkids.org/gallery/

January 2010: In the Ice

Hear cats purr like a baby: 

http://www.lifesci.sussex.ac.uk/cmvcr/Domestic%20cats.html

See more about science in the Antarctic: 
http://www.coolantarctica.com/Antarctica%20fact%20file/frequently_asked_questions.htm

Explore the North and South poles:
http://icestories.exploratorium.edu/dispatches/

November/December 2009: Searching for Pirates

See more artifacts from the Queen Anne's Revenge and read Wendy's reports at:
http://www.qaronline.org/

Locate artifacts on a map of the Queen Anne's Revenge dive at:
http://www.qaronline.org/QARinteractiveSiteMap.htm

October 2009: Boo!

See the amazing Vegetable Car:
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/newsandevents/pressreleases/racing_car

Learn more about fear at:
The California Science Center Goosebumps site,
http://www.fearexhibit.org/brain

September 2009: Eureka!

See Snowball the Cockatoo dance:
http://www.birdloversonly.org/snowball2.html

See an animation of how the Antikythera gears might have worked:
http://www.math.sunysb.edu/~tony/whatsnew/column/antikytheraI-0400/kyth5.html

Learn more about the Antikythera at: 
http://www.nature.com/nature/videoarchive/antikythera/

July/August 2009: Contintents Crack Up!

Listen to the sound of a real queen ant and a caterpillar faker:
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/40606/title/Caterpillar_noise_tricks_ants_into_service_#ant_sounds

Play the Pangaea game:
http://kids.earth.nasa.gov/archive/pangaea/Pangaea_game.html