Research Collaborators Encounter Mystery
Posted on December 5th, 2010 by ASEE
High School biology students in Valders, Wis. are raising zebra fish as part of a research project being conducted by students at the University of Wisconsin-Manitowoc. Or at least they’re trying. But the grant-funded project, intended to interest high schoolers in STEM, has encountered a problem: dying fish.
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Tags: Biology, Biomedical, Bioscience, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Experiments
NASA’s “Kids in Micro-g” challenge calls for students in grades five through eight to design a classroom experiment that can also be performed by astronauts aboard the International Space Station. The “Kids in Micro-g” challenge calls for the experiments to examine the effect of weightlessness on various subjects.
NASA’s “Kids in Micro-g” student experiment design challenge for grades 5-8, is aimed at giving students a hands-on opportunity to design an experiment or simple demonstration that could be performed both in the classroom and by astronauts aboard the International Space Station.
An Arlington, Va. physics teacher is heading to the South Pole as part of a University of Wisconsin experiment called IceCube, hailed as the biggest research project ever conducted on Antarctica. Among the subjects studied are cosmic rays and tiny, elusive particles known as neutrinos.
Visit the chemistry activity page from CSIRO — The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia’s national science agency — to find simple, fun chemistry and physics projects for students. Other sections of this science Website offer information, videos, links, the Double Helix Science Club, and local resources for Australia teachers.
