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The Importance of Questions
We all know it's important to ask questions, but how, exactly, do we get our kids to do it? And why is STEM a great venue for asking questions? The first step is realizing that people generally love talking about…
A New Way to Share – The KNE STEM Newsletter!
The pace of my Kids Need Enrichment (KNE) blog posts has slowed down recently for a variety of reasons, most importantly that I've been thinking about learning and how to provide more kids (and kids at heart) more opportunities to…
6 Days in Dallas
I said "Wow! Look at its tongue!" as my daughter fed a giraffe a lettuce leaf. The giraffe had a really long dark gray tongue that wrapped around the lettuce and pulled the leaf into its mouth. The last day…
The Milstein Science Series at the American Museum of Natural History
The scientist carefully lifted a long, straggly tentacle out of his bucket and asked if anyone wanted to hold a giant squid (Architeuthis kirkii). As we eagerly touched the tentacle, we were surprised to feel sharp rings of teeth on…
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Science Olympiad
Our daughter's partner carefully blew up the air bladder and inserted the ping pong ball as our daughter aimed to hit the quarter-sized target 2 meters away. She released the trigger and ploosh! Their ball got within 8 centimeters of…
STEM Night
Our 8 year old asked her friend, "Did you try the cricket cookies? They're delicious." That was just one of the unusual options available in the Entomology Room at our elementary school's first Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) Night.…
Economic Principles – How the Economic Machine Works in 30 Minutes
The free online video, How the Economic Machine Works used simple animations as it explained, "Though the economy might seem complex. It works in a simple mechanical way. It's made up of a few simple parts and a lot of…
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The Percy Jackson & the Olympians Art Adventure at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
My husband and 11-year-old daughter excitedly exclaimed, "Over here! We found it!" Our 8-year-old daughter and I rushed over to the glass case they were examining. Inside was an ornately decorated ancient Greek drinking cup (which was more like the…
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Rutgers Geology Museum Open House
As my 10-year-old looked at the replica of the human skull, she couldn't tell if it was Caucasian, African, or Asian? How could we find out? During an afternoon at the Rutgers Geology Museum Open House in New Brunswick, New…
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