Category Archives: Fun

Oh, to do physics experiments in space

Sometimes I wish that you could switch of gravity for some experiments, especially during some lessons at school. I’m sure my students and I would have as much fun as Don Pettit (his weblog is Letters to Earth) who uses his spare time on the ISS to do some fun experiments. I especially enjoyed watching Thin Film Physics, Goo! and of course the vacuum cleaner hose turned into didgeridoo.

By the way, his time lapse from space is also pretty neat.

Sylvia’s Super-Awesome Maker Show! is a “DIY webshow on everything cool and worth Making”. Sylvia is ten years old, and each episode of her show features a cool craft or project. The episodes include squishy circuits made with conducting and non-conducting dough, a no-heat lava lamp, making your own sidewalk chalk or crazy putty and many more.

I enjoyed watching them and am planning on doing some of the projects with my science students at school.

… was ein Meister werden will.

YouTube: Eight-year-old Aidan Laprete Powell (aka Aidan James) plays Hey Soul Sister by Train on the ukulele.

Das ist doch mal ein Link für den Schockwellenreiter, der auch ein großer Ukulelen-Fan ist.

The penguin cam of Sea World San Diego has been entertaining me for days… [André says it’s because I don’t watch TV.]

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