I have been bombarded with rockin’ cool science stuff in the last twenty-four hours and how could I possibly not share with you? I have to, I simply must!

I am telling you - science is cool now! I’m serious! You know who helped me figure that out? Bill Nye. That is right - Bill Nye, The Science Guy. The kids and I used to watch him all the time! We loved him! And he made science fun! Now why didn’t anyone do that for me when I was a kid?

And then came The Mad Science Guy - he was cool! He would show up in Richardson, TX - in our recreation centers and our library and make us laugh and make us ooh! and aah! He was great! I think he has a website, too.

Those guys aren’t who I wanted to tell you about today, though. (Oops, too late.)
This all started yesterday when I found a post on my friend, Marisa’s blog. Marisa tells us that Science is for Everyone. Oh man, have I ever learned that! I’m so glad that I’ve learned such cool stuff as an adult to get my kids interested in science! Marisa blogged about a very cool online science retailer called Edmund Scientific. It wasn’t always online. Nope - because, it was started in the 1940’s. I dug around a little bit on the site and found some very cool stuff. It reminded me of a store in Texas for homeschool families that we went to once for science project materials. We loved that store! The product that Marisa was pointing out was The Art of Soapmaking. You see, Marisa is a very skilled soapmaker, and she says that had someone told her when she was in school that making cosmetics was science, she knows she would’ve paid much more attention in her school science class! I can totally understand that!

I’m always preaching that about books - make it interesting, make it about a subject in which the child is already interested …and you will sell them every time!

Ok, moving on in this ‘Invasion of Science’ comes Barbara J. Feldman. You guys know I love her - that’s her Daily Factoid over there in the left sidebar. And I told you before about her SurfNet Kids newsletter. The newsletter she sent out today contained none other than….wait for it…science fair ideas!! Do you see what I’m saying here? It’s like a science fair conspiracy or something! “Let’s bombard Mrs. Lisa with science today, General.” Yeah. Ok, then - you can sign up for Barbara’s cool newsletter right here: SurfNet Kids Newsletter.

It doesn’t end there, though! Can you believe it? And this next one is really funny! It’s funny, because, not only is it part of the big Science Fair Invasion of Mrs. Lisa, but, it also appeals to the Hippie in Mrs. Lisa!!

It was my newsletter from Steve Spangler Science and in it he was talking about how to make a new kind of tie dye t-shirt, complete with video! And it looks really cool! It’s the perfect combination of chemistry and art that teaches the concepts of solubility, color mixing, and the movement of molecules. So you wind up with a rockin’ cool shirt - and you learn something along the way! How cool is that?

And then, to put the cherry on the cake, my awesome friend, Sam, over at Punkymoms, asked if anyone had any good science fair ideas. Too funny - science was everywhere today!

And thus ends my scientific journey I was happily dragged along today. I hope my sharing it with you has been helpful to you!

My boys are so funny - they come home from school armed with some new knowledge, and present it to the family, and invariably - the other one argues with him. They argue about whether the other has a certain concept right, or whether the other one has the right year for the end of a war, or just about anything! The other day they were arguing about peptides. So I went looking for books about them. I found some really cool science books for kids on my search, too. The one that I really liked was Homework Helpers: Biology by Matthew Distefano. It is actually one of a series of books on many topics for children. I think we will definitely have to invest in some of those, especially as my boys are getting up there in the upper grades, at a level where this Mama Bookworm is not that skilled at helping them!

GO READ A BOOK!