
Science on a shoestring: inspiring experiments with everyday items
June 10, 2025 | Issue 73Low cost, high impact: try these creative and engaging experiments that use inexpensive everyday materials to bring curriculum science to life.
Low cost, high impact: try these creative and engaging experiments that use inexpensive everyday materials to bring curriculum science to life.
Ready to bring circular economy concepts to your classroom and teach your students hands-on STEM and digital skills? Explore Girls Go Circular!
How do scientists develop new materials for the computers of the future? Discover the rare magneto-electric properties of layered perovskites.
Stranger things: discover quantum computers, which are based on a new approach to computing powered by the strange behaviour of subatomic particles.
Try a project blends chemistry, art, and peer learning, as secondary school students teach younger students how to create nature-inspired cyanotype prints.
Sounds good: try some simple activities that use robots to explore the basic properties of sound waves – reflection, absorption, and propagation.
Chasing rainbows: the interaction of an electric current and magnetic field in a solution with pH indicator gives amazing colour patterns as electrolysis occurs.
Circle of life: Explore sustainability, the circular economy, and chemical analysis by evaluating coffee waste as a potential soil enhancer.