Partnership to Address the Achievement Gap in Education

05/26/2020

This is "super cool"!

The Action Lab is a page dedicated to exciting experimenting and science education!

04/23/2020

weekly events, Maryland Science Center

We inspire. We empower. We engage. Let's science!

04/22/2020

June Almeida was the first person to image corona viruses

June Almeida was born June Hart to a bus driver and his wife in Glasgow, Scotland. She lived with her family in a tenement building and went to school until age 16 when she had to drop out because the family had no money. She took a job as a technician at Glasgow Royal Infirmary and used a microscop...

03/28/2020

Thanks to everyone who came out for the Severna Park STEM festival. Stay safe and healthy, we thank you for your support and and we hope to see you again next year
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03/27/2020

Also known as "non-Newtonian" fluids. Sounds kind of fancy, it means that these fluids don't behave like water or oil - run faster when they're heated, run slower when they're cooled. These fluids change their "running speed" based on pressure! Check them out, and visit www.paagedu.org for more!

03/27/2020

The fruit and vegetable battery table had many visitors at STEM Fest. Here's a fast moving video, are slower, more explanatory video and instructions.
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03/27/2020

We had a great time building baking soda and vinegar rockets at the Severna Park STEM Festival. This video has some information and instructions, please
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03/03/2020

PAAGE's STEM Fest on Saturday was a resounding success. Several exhibitors verbally expressed a desire to return next year, as well as several attendees. The Fest has already outgrown the original venue and will have to be held in a larger space next year. Heartfelt thanks from our board to all the volunteers who worked very hard to make the day go as smoothly as it did.

Dramatic demonstrations, presented at intervals from the stage, will augment the interactive exhibits and activity stations.

02/03/2020

Day 2 of flashlights. Today we talked about batteries in series versus parallel and how that changes total voltage.

01/28/2020

by the University of Colorado Boulder is a fantastic source of videos aligned with the NGSS standards for K-12 STEM education. See the video that inspired the Cool Cations flashlight activity here:

During a power failure, or when we go outside at night, we grab a flashlight so we can find our way. What happens inside a flashlight that makes the bulb light up? Why do we need a switch to turn on a flashlight? Have you ever noticed that for the flashlight to work you must orient the batteries a c...

01/28/2020

PAAGE’s Cool Cation club members started building their flashlights yesterday. First we watched a video on what to do while enjoying a snack. Then we took a pre test to capture our current knowledge of the NGSS exercise. The flashlights will take a few meetings to complete, after which we will take a post test to see how much new knowledge we gained. Go Cations!

01/19/2020

99 signatures are still needed! Make all AACPS teachers whole