Amazing Ants Game For most of us, ants may all look essentially the same—tiny, nondescript creatures that scurry around carrying things twice their size. But there are nearly 10,000 known species, each the unique product of over 140 million years of evolution. And their behaviors are just as diverse. In this interactive, meet eight different types of ants and try your hand at matching them to their extraordinary habits and abilities.
Dr. Fun - Mantis Report - Preparing Fruit Flies Short but amusing video of an experimenter who is learning how to prepare fruit flies in preparation for feeding them to praying mantises. From the Mantis Report, a blog for kids of all ages on raising praying mantises. http://mantisreport.blogspot.com
Mantis Report An offshoot of the Sunflower Report -- an account of the adventure of raising praying mantises, a blog growing towards developing learning activities of kids of all ages.
PicoTurbine - wind/solar education kits Company offers plans, books, and kits for renewable energy education and homebrew projects including wind and solar kits. Free, downloadable do-it-yourself plans, and kits that include all the materials for a modest charge. We also sell plans and kits from other vendors. The PicoTurbine is an 8-inch tall, fully functioning wind turbine, the produces enough electricity to light up a bicolor LED that flashes red and green to show the alternating current. It has been used by universities such as MIT and Caltech, as well as the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) for summer youth programs.
Profile: James McLurkin James McLurkin of MIT is one of the world's leading designers of robot "swarms"—groups of robots that work together for a greater purpose.
Profile: Sunflower Club An online version of a regional newspaper article about the Sunflower Club, for kids of all ages. Pictures of growers of monster sunflowers scattered throughout the U.S. and Europe.
Sundance Solar Solar and wind power kits and toys, as well as a variety of solar-powered consumer electronics items, books, etc.
Sunflower Club - Official Site The experimental beta site for the sunflower club. The Sunflower Club is an environmental activity for kids of all ages. Purpose: grow sunflowers, pass the seeds on to a new generation of growers, and watch the family tree grow, tracing the ancestry. Learn about community, exchange questions and wisdom with other growers.A curriculum for kids is being developed as well.
Sunflower Report 1.0 The original sunflower blog that started it all, and led to the Sunflower Club at www.sunflowerclub.net
