Some more uber coolness from Steve Spangler, this time accompanied by his three sons!

Newspapers are made from trees and trees grow… so it only makes sense that you should be able to grow a newspaper tree.

Hey Spangler crew – that’s just awesome!!

You have got to see this video – it’s truly amazing! It is an undersea volcano erupting!

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Wasn’t that incredible? Interesting that it happens now, when tons of school kids around the United States are busy preparing their own volcanoes for their Science Fair projects.

Now I know you guys have heard of Steve Spangler and other science guys erupting Coke with Mentos candies. But did you know that a lot of kids are actually making their volcanoes erupt with Coke and Mentos. I just learned that recently. It’s cool, because, mixing Coke and Mentos is so. much. fun. But it’s kind of sad, because, it’s so much fun when our kids partake in the very same activities we did when we were kids!

I actually thought I might get some Coke and Mentos for my kids for some Spring Break fun. Hey – if it would tear them away from video games and the internet for even a little while, it would totally be worth it!

Big ‘ol hat-tip to JustJulie and 408Down for this post!

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I absolutely love this – Steve Spangler and his friend, Harmony Conger, are combining three very cool things for a great activity to do with your kids! It’s a wonderful mix of:

VALENTINES DAY + SCIENCE + CRAFTS = FUN, FUN, FUN!!

And the cool thing is, the kids get to learn some science while they’re being super creative! They learn about acids and bases! I’m telling you – learning about science is fun! Either it’s gotten a LOT better since I was a kid or I just had my head in the sand! Whatever is true, I’m just glad it’s so great these days! My daughter actually says that science is her FAVORITE subject! To me, that’s a SCORE – big time!!

Steve is sharing his fun and learning all over the web, which this internet-crazy mama thinks is GRRRREAT! You can read his blog right here: Steve Spangler Blog and he is even on Twitter!! Click here: Steve on Twitter – and say Hello! to him yourself!

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!