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 Water and oil do not mix together, and food coloring can only dissolve in water. When we poured the oil & food coloring into the water, the oil stayed at the top because it is less dense than the water, plus the oil and water do not mix. The food coloring drops are heavier than the oil so they slowly fall into the water and start dissolving. This looks like a miniature explosion and it’s how we get our fireworks in a jar!

More resources: https://www.education.com/science-fair/article/pepper-and-soap-experiment/

The pepper and soap trick also works a similar way. This website also has other fun science projects to try.

Suggested age group: K-6th grade

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This is a short educational video about Eclipses (Solar Eclipse, Lunar Eclipse, and Total Solar Eclipse) to help encourage students to notice how STEM is all around them!

NASA actually has a lot of classroom activities that would be great for further STEM exploration (ex. https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/teach/activity/solar-system-bead-activity/). These activities can also be filtered based on interest, age/grade, etc. Here is the link to a few related to Eclipses: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/teach/tag/search/Eclipse

Suggested age group: K-3rd grade

Created by: Faith Thomas

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This is a brief introduction to Newton's Third Law of Motion. We briefly touch on topics like who Issac Newton was, what force is, what the Third Law means, and how this law applies in practical situations. The objective is to give students a bit of foundational physics knowledge, and generally demonstrate why people learn about physics.

To learn more about basic physics, a great online resource are the PhET Physics simulations (https://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulations/filter?subjects=motion&type=html&sort=alpha&view=grid). They're a bunch of free simulations that kids can play with, almost as a little game.

Suggested age group: 4-6th grade

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Watch the tour of UCONN, and try to find all the locations from the tour using OpenStreetMap: https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/41.80666/-72.25201 . After the presentation, either make a list of what you'd look for in your future college, and what parts of UCONN made you think of that. Look up a UCONN building that wasn't included on the tour and see what resources or rooms it has for STEM students.

For future exploration: They can explore https://www.engr.uconn.edu/ to find where their major of interest has facilities on campus or what facilities that major has access to.

Suggested age group: K - High School

Created by: Owen Spangler

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This is a walking tour of the UCONN Storrs Campus. It’s full of fun facts about the university and has scenic videos from the major parts of campus.

Additional resources can be found at the main University of Connecticut website.

Suggested age group: 4th grade - High School

Created by: Jessica Berry

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 My research project is centered on investigating the effectiveness of serious gaming on health promotion among teens and young adolescents. The game itself consists of a story mode which focuses on introducing players to the 5 major food groups and outlining foods to eat and avoid within each food group. As a player you are in control of a food basket and must maneuver your basket to collect the healthy foods from each food group while avoiding any unhealthy foods.  The game offers a nice challenge as players must be able to distinguish between different foods from different food groups in addition to keeping track of all unhealthy substitutes as they progress.

Students could continue their STEM/Learning exploration based on my project by investigating/identifying health challenges that may stand to benefit from being presented in a game format. In-visioning how a game could help inform and motivate behavior change based on improving exercise habits could be an example of a topic for a future serious game.

Suggested Age group: 4th grade - Middle school

Created by: Lavar Johnson

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Understanding what we learn in the EEB major and how that knowledge can be used in different ways.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/topic/evolution/ has good videos that give an overview of evolution

Suggested age group: Middle - High school

Created by: Mita Kale

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To show young students that Mechanical engineering provides a wide skill set to be employed across different industries.

To motivate young students to become Mechanical Engineering Majors in hope of a better future

To send a message to young students that embracing one's true passion early can be very rewarding.

Suggested age group: Middle - High school

Created by: Gabriel Millan Garcia

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Created by: Malavika Madan

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This is a fun and engaging game for elementary-aged students to learn a little bit more about the fields of STEM: science, technology, engineering, and math. Each category has simple questions to test student's knowledge and have them practice trivia questions to learn more about what these individual fields look like. This is a jeopardy-style game created on PowerPoint. All of the slides are hyperlinked for your convenience and you are welcome to edit the questions to better suit your students! Enjoy!

Suggested age group: K-3rd grade

Created by: Ashanthi Snell

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STEM is more than biology and engineering. There are so many more fields to explore that involve the use of science, math, technology, and engineering- here are some examples of majors!

Guide to each major

Suggested age group: 4th grade & up

Created by: Shaharia Ferdus