Academy Science Club assists seniors with their computer use needs. Did you ever know you have something so good to offer that it can take off on its own? We know from our research, survey responses and just getting out there meeting and speaking with people that seniors want to be informed about their options when it comes to using computers. This is bigger than us. So what does a…
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Nebraska 4-H Sarpy County Fair Poultry Showmanship Our science club embryology project has “grown” into our club poultry project. This is a big deal and required a great deal of logistics planning. There is more going on here than poultry growth and development! We learned about how to study important facts about our bird and how to present ourselves. Why are both genders referred to as “showman”?
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Nebraska 4-H Sarpy County Fair Rocket Competition The big day has finally arrived! The moment of truth we are waiting for! Most of us have designed, discussed, flown, redesigned and tested model rockets of different materials in the best attempt to minimize drag and maximize flight. We have a specially designed and constructed compressed air launcher that maximizes control of model rocket launch. We measure and record flight data. We…
Read MoreAcademy Science Lesson Plan Format
Grandpa says “sometimes teachers can be an odd lot, but it is hard to raise up children right without good teachers.” So we arrive at a place where we must always jump off from as teachers: the lesson plan format. There can be as many possible ways to do this as there are teachers, but a popular lesson plan format that grew from the research and practices of Dr. Madeline…
Read MoreAcademy Science NXT Robot course
There are few opportunities more exciting than some Lego NXT Mindstorm robot computer science programming and engineering. Our science club is fortunate to have a real engineer teaching us to design, build and program robots! Mr Nate Griffith deserves an award for his volunteer teaching efforts. We mix in a measure of robot computer science while we pursue our other science interests. Lego NXT Mindstorm robots have sensors attached to…
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Can you imagine chicks pecking their way out of these eggs? We have a warm, humid environment in an incubator. It is about 100 F and 40% humidity in here. We are turning the eggs twice a day and talking to the chicks inside that are about to hatch. We started with one dozen fertile mostly brown chicken eggs on the first day. We rescued another dozen of mixed whitish…
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Welcome to our Academy Science Club blog! Our blog will inform you about some of the interesting and exciting things we do as an education focused club. – STEM – Science, Technology, Engineering, Math; we make this STEAM by rolling in Art. Are you interested in visiting our club activity? – just contact me! We can arrange a visit date and time. You never know where we may pop up…
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