Grab your passport and get ready to explore a country that's straight out of a fairy tale! Austria has mountains, lakes, interesting history, beautiful ...

Get ready to spread some science joy into your St. Patrick's Day celebrations. If you've ever wondered how rainbows form or how to build a bridge strong ...

Trim the flowers at the stalks. Fill a vase or jar with water and add a little food colouring. Place the flowers in the jar and leave them for a few hours. Usually, you will see the flowers change ...

Toothpick structures are a fantastic, low-cost, and easy STEM challenge that keeps kids busy for hours. We used cocktail sticks, but you could also use straws or spaghetti. I set the children a ...

I've got another easy EGG themed STEM Challenge for you today! It's a bit of a twist on the traditional egg drop experiment. The challenge is to build a car using K'Nex or another construction toy to ...

This fun parachute egg drop experiment is a great demonstration of the forces acting on parachutes. If you drop something, it falls to the ground. This is because it is pulled by the gravity of the ...

Our next Easter STEM challenge is to build a harness to safely transport a small egg down a zip wire. Once you've built a suitable harness for a chocolate egg, you could try a real egg ( maybe boil it ...

Keep the kids busy over the Easter holidays with my FREE Easter Science Quiz. Do you know why chocolate eggs melt, why eggs are oval, and what the name of the famous egg rolling game is? Find out with ...

Today's post is part of my United States of Science series. The idea is you print a map of the USA and colour each state as you learn about it with a fun science activity. New York City in the state ...

This homemade articulated grabber is a brilliant STEM Challenge or STEM project, that works brilliantly and is easy to construct as well! We cut up a shoe box to make ours as the cardboard does need ...

The 2026 Winter Olympics start tomorrow, bringing athletes from around the world together to compete for a coveted gold medal! Here at Science Sparks, we're looking forward to watching gravity-defying ...

The 2024 Olympics are to be held in Paris, France, for the first time in over 100 years! Olympic sports include athletics, team sports, climbing, surfing, swimming, tennis, skateboarding, and even ...