8 Fun Science Experiments You Can Easily Do at Home
Looking for a science project to do with kids? These experiments go beyond the trivial and incorporate real-world scientific research.
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Help NASA Find Out How Planets Form
A NASA citizen science project called Disk Detective enlists volunteers to study images of solar systems as they’re forming.
Track Four Emerging Climate Hazards
Use the power of citizen science to help researchers track emerging climate hazards that can impact your community.
Back to School with Citizen Science
s they go back to school, kids can try these fun and easy science projects to learn about nature either online or in the great outdoors.
NASA Science Projects Teach Kids Astronomy
Kids and adults can get involved these citizen science experiments from NASA researchers. Each one comes with educational materials that can help you learn about everything from alien planets to finding asteroids.
The Science of Making a Wild Sourdough Starter
Want to make sourdough starter? The Wild Sourdough Project can help you understand yeast and microbes while helping home bakers create delicious bread.
Building DIY Air Quality Monitors
Colombian citizen scientists built cheap air quality monitors and deployed them across their city. Now they’re teaching others to build them, too.
Surfers Pick Up the Slack to Monitor Water
A massive network of surfers and citizen scientists is monitoring water quality and water contamination in places governments don’t.
Earth School: Take a Nature Quest
Over 1.5 billion children can’t go to school right now. An online program from TED Education, The United Nations Environmental Programme, and other hopes to help by offering dozens of science “quests.”
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Black Birders, Scientists Push for Equality
Black Birders Week helped show the world that Black scientists exist in the great outdoors. Now, participants hope to keep the conversation going.