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Steve Spangler is a cross between a modern day Mr. Wizard and an entrepreneur who is passionate about creating educational science toys that make learning fun. An Emmy-award winning television personality, educator, inventor, and CEO of a Denver-based retail catalog company, Steve Spangler doles out sage advice to teachers on how to amaze their students and to parents on how to get their kids excited about science. In addition to daily audio segments, you'll also find weekly videos of Steve doing crazy science experiments in the studios of the Denver NBC affiliate KUSA-TV which airs to over million homes every Monday. Whether viewers are learning to how mix up a batch of slime or make a 2-liter bottle of soda erupt on command, Spangler knows how to make learning fun. Primary Format : Blogs Also Listed as: Blog Science City : Denver State/Province : CO Country : USA Country : NA User Tags: User Votes: RSS Feed Website People found this Podcast Searching for: War | Advice | Audio Blog | Blog | Educational | View this Podcast on a Google Map. Add to iTunes Text Only listing of Steve Spangler Science podcast Podcasts Trumix.com listings available of Steve Spangler Science podcast Podcasts Click Here to Update the directory of this podcasts programs.

Trumix.com listings available of Steve Spangler Science podcast Podcasts Build your own playlists with this podcast. Swinging Tray of Glasses - Ooops! Everything was going great. I loaded the tray with four glasses filled with water and told Becky Ditchfield (the lovely meteorologist from 9NEWS) to swing the tray over her head (demonstrating Newton’s Laws of motion). It looked like things were going so well… And then the tray accidentally hit Becky’s leg… Of course, Becky was concerned about [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Evangelist… of sorts During a break at the Anaheim Hands-on Science Boot Camp, I met a real-world Miss Frizzle (so to speak). Denise Goodman is a science evangelist of sorts who travels to some 50 schools each year throughout the state in an effort to bring new science experiences to students and teachers who might not otherwise get [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Facebook and Myspace for Teachers I recently recorded a conversation held between me and Stephan Spencer, president of search engine optimization company, Netconcepts. Spencer talks about the basics of both social networking sites, such as whether or not you should make your profile private if you are worried about your job, or prospective jobs. There are plenty of cases where exactly [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Fair Boot Camp reporting for duty, sir! Doubling the number of participants in science fairs is a personal goal of mine, mainly because of the approach taken to it by teachers. We often tell kids that they have to participate in the upcoming science fair, but we haven’t shown them how to do it. It's difficult to get good results when the process [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Leprechauns Strike Again with Green Water I will never forget St. Patrick’s Day 2006. This morning I woke to the screams of our almost four year old twins, Mark and Scott. “Daddy, wake up! Look at what those Leprechauns did,” yelled Scott. I jumped out of bed to find the twins picking up green and gold coins that peppered the living room floor. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Best Educational Toys for 2005 Just last week our office took over 200 calls from people wanting our advice on buying “cool” educational toys. Among the callers were two network television producers and a slew of newspaper writers. So, here’s our favorite educational toys for the holiday season. We’d like to hear your suggestions as well.Watch the video of Steve’s [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website I can?t believe UPS did it! Lots and lots of teachers do the “egg drop” activity with their students. Basically, here’s how it works… each child gets an egg and some parameters for making a container that will protect the egg and keep it from breaking if it were dropped. The teacher usually perches herself high atop the roof of the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A New Twist on the Tablecloth Trick There’s just nothing more impressive than whipping the tablecloth out from under the Thanksgiving meal. The classic whip-off the tablecloth trick is a must for any aspiring science demonstrator who wants to be amazing! It’s time for the classic “whip off” the tablecloth trick - guaranteed to either bring down the house or to get [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Diving Ketchup - An Impromptu Table Trick Everyone probably has a memory of a favorite uncle or grandfather who could do a few tricks at the dinner table. Okay, in my case it was my father who could magically bend spoons, vanish the salt shaker and eat his napkin (I know… kind of strange). With Thanksgiving right around the corner, I recently [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Self-Carving, Exploding Pumpkin Just call it the Halloween After-Glow. No, it’s not the warm feeling you get in your heart when you think of all of those darling little Trick-or-Treaters or think of the fun kids had opening their candy. The “After-Glow” refers to the light coming from inside the pumpkin after the kaboom! Hundreds of chemistry teachers [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Self-Carving, Exploding Pumpkin Just call it the Halloween After-Glow. No, it’s not the warm feeling you get in your heart when you think of all of those darling little Trick-or-Treaters or think of the fun kids had opening their candy. The “After-Glow” refers to the light coming from inside the pumpkin after the kaboom! Hundreds of chemistry teachers [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Self-Carving, Exploding Pumpkin Just call it the Halloween After-Glow. No, it’s not the warm feeling you get in your heart when you think of all of those darling little Trick-or-Treaters or think of the fun kids had opening their candy. The “After-Glow” refers to the light coming from inside the pumpkin after the kaboom! Hundreds of chemistry teachers [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website