Color our Collections Materials Checklist • A printer and paper• Crayons or colored pencils
“What is a Material?” Coloring Book
Speech & Hearing Coloring Pages
Celebrate the Sounds of Your Life! Protect your ears. If the noise is too loud, walk away, turn it down (Turn it to the Left), or use ear plugs. Materials Checklist Printed Coloring PagesCrayons, colored pencils etc.
Health Academy Part 3: COVID-19, Vaccines, and your Health
Healthy Practices and COVID-19 During the pandemic, there are certain things you should do to stay healthy! 1. Wear a face mask. Putting a face covering over your mouth and nose isn't all that comfortable, but it is important because it helps prevent the spread of infection. When an
Knowledge Quiz Sample + Instructions
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Friends Come in All Sizes
Meet Nema the nematode and her friends the bacteria Did you know that all animals depend on bacteria to develop and thrive? Read and color in this short story to learn about the mutually beneficial relationship between small, soil-dwelling worms and their bacterial partners. Download the flat
For the Birds
Bird Banding up Close Eve Cusack, part of the MAPS (Monitoring Avian Productivity and Survivorship) team, demonstrates how to catch individual birds, band them, collect data, and release them. The MAPS team operates out of the Kent Research Station.
Make your own Playdough
Ingredients: 1 cup flour1 cup water2 teaspoons cream of tarter1/3 cup salt1 tablespoon vegetable oilGel food coloring Instructions (Stovetop): Mix together all the ingredients, except the food coloring, in a medium saucepan.Cook over low/medium heat, stirring. Once it begins to thicken, add
My Eye Exam
Let's get an eye exam with Maiwenn! Have you ever wondered what it’s like to get an eye exam or what an Optometrist does? Check out this video to see what it’s like to get an eye exam at the Atwater Eye Care Center. Extra Credit
Motor Neurons Part 2 – Electric Fish Demonstration
Motor Neurons in Electric Fish We typically think that the job of motor neurons is to transmit information from our brain to our body to help us move around and interact with the world. Interestingly, some species of animals also have specialized motor neurons that can help them interact with the
Weather Update for Science Fest – Eclipse Edition
Science Fest is soon, so we went back to our resident meteorologist, Dr. Cody Kirkpatrick, to ask for an update on the weather forecast for Science Fest on Saturday, April 6, and for eclipse day, Monday, April 8. Here is what he said:
Virtual Escape Room
Wait, what was that sound!? Oh, no! The door's locked! You're trapped in the library! If you want to get out, you have to follow the clues and solve the puzzles in this text based virtual escape room.
A Visit with the Giants
Our Magnificent Trees Michael Chitwood, IU's Research and Teaching Preserve property manager, will introduce Science Fest visitors of all ages to our magnificent trees, sharing their history and cultural uses and attributes.
Coloring Our Feathered Friends
Coloring Pages What does it take to be a successful tree swallow? Color in these pictures of tree swallows doing what they do best: competing for nest sites, fending off intruders, and taking care of their chicks. Extra Credit
Science Libraries Coloring Pages
What color is a book? The sun? A butterfly? That's up to you! Book & Planets Butterfly Share your Creations Send a picture of your favorite coloring page to the Sciences Library using the form below, then enter your creation into the official Science Fest Coloring Contest!
Coloring with Nanoparticles
Experimenting with Nanoparticles Now you Try!
Braille Alphabet
The Braille system is used by people who are blind to read and write. The Braille system uses a set of raised bumps or dots that can be felt with your finger. Each set of dots is a character in an alphabet. In this activity, you will create your own braille alphabet with just paper and glue. You
Motor Neuron Coloring Page
Color a Neuron For an extra challenge, label the parts of the neuron. Check the Build a Neuron with Playdough activity for clues. Materials Checklist • Crayons, colored pencils etc.
ATLAS Experiment Coloring Book
The ATLAS Experiment ATLAS is a collaboration of about 3,000 scientists plus a similar number of engineers, technicians, and students. It takes data from the Large Hadron Collider at the CERN laboratory in Geneva Switzerland. The ATLAS experiment studies the collision of protons traveling at
Keep Your Eyes Safe During the Eclipse
We all know that we should never look directly at the Sun. It's tempting to look directly at an eclipse during the partial phases because, well, there's not as much Sun showing. But a partial eclipse is just as damaging to your eyes as looking at the unobstructed Sun.
Secret Codes – Part 1
Materials Checklist Printed Decoder WorksheetScissorsPencil Introduction Codes are being used to transfer messages secretly from one person to another, so that other people who see the message can't read it. There are many different types of codes, and we use them every day, for
Ectopic Eyes on Fruit Flies
How does a cell decide to be an eye? Ever wondered how development works? Ever wondered how a cell determines what kind of cell it will be? In this video Allie explains this using the fruit fly and generation of ectopic eyes as a tool. Color By Number Materials
Bloomington Urban Woodlands Project
Biodiversity & Ecosystem Services Label the Organisms Materials Checklist Printed coloring pageCrayons or other coloring medium Now Test Your Understanding!
Restoring Biodiversity with the BUWP
Restoring Biodiversity Biodiversity Quiz
Wear Hearing Protection
How to protect your hearing
Planet Temperature Calculator
Build a habitable planet This calculator takes into account variables like the planet's albedo, it's distance from the host star, and the host star's size to determine the planet's temperature. Try to make a planet where water can exist in liquid form! Trouble using this app? Try
Están listos para el eclipse solar total de esta primavera?
Aquí tienen todo lo que necesitan saber. (Are you ready for the total solar eclipse this spring? Here's everything you need to know.)
What Happens When a Dam Breaks?
On May 19, 2020 the Edenville Dam in Edenville, MI failed. Fortunately no lives were lost, but 10,000 people were displaced or evacuated, more than 2,000 homes were damaged or destroyed, and tens to hundreds of millions of dollars in damages occurred. This dam failure released floodwaters
How to Make a Cereal Box Pinhole Viewer
There are two ways to observe an eclipse. One is to view it directly with a proper certified ISO 12312-2 solar viewer. The other way is to view it indirectly with any number of devices made for this purpose. This is done by projecting the image of the sun onto another surface.
School of Nursing Health Academy
Nurses use several instruments to track the health of their patients. Want to learn more about why these are important for assessing health? Let's examine each tool. Blood pressure cuff: this is used to measure the force of the blood rushing against the walls of blood vessels. Most of this
Flow Cytometry
What is flow cytometry? Flow cytometry is a laser-based technology that characterizes cells based on different cell features. These features include size, complexity (how much “stuff” is inside the cell, and how smooth or rough the cell surface is), and most often fluorescence – light that
How do Rivers Work?
Geomorphology Geomorphology is the study of Earth’s surface and the processes that sculpt it. To understand how these processes operate, geomorphologists (scientists who study geomorphology) often use physical models. Physical models are a compact and simplified way of representing a
Hoosier Geology Quiz
Biology Coloring Pages
Materials Checklist Printed Coloring PagesCrayons, colored pencils etc. Animal Cell Darwin's Finches Wear a Mask Photosynthesis Created by Service Through ART Students
Exploring Behavior with Our Feathered Friends – Part 2
Before you Begin Make sure you complete Exploring Behavior with Our Feathered Friends Part 1 before continuing! Materials Checklist • Pen or pencil How exactly do we measure a bird's aggressiveness? Research in the Rosvall Lab has shown that more aggressive tree swallows -
EARTHQUAKE! Part 2
Before you Begin Make sure you understand Earthquake! Part 1 before tackling this challenge! Earthquake Location with Michael Join Dr. Michael Hamburger again for a video explaining how seismologists locate earthquakes using seismograms. Then put it into practice with an
Illuminating Science: Quorum Sensing
Can bacteria talk? A graduate student from the van Kessel lab at IU talks about how bacteria communicate with each other to accomplish group behaviors. This process is called quorum sensing! Quorum Sensing Activities Extra Credit Read more background information
Is it even possible to predict the weather for the Eclipse?
It's time for another check-in Dr. Cody Kirkpatrick about the weather on April 8. Given the fluctuating forecasts we've seen lately, we asked, "Is it even possible to predict the weather for the eclipse?"
You’ve Got a Friend in Me: Plants and Their Microbial Partners
Microbes: Friends or Foes? Plant seeds harbor microbes on the surface of their seeds. Find out how these microbes either help or hurt plants. What Do Microbes Do For Plant Growth? Protocols Materials Checklist At Least 6 Seeds of One Type (seeds can be from fresh
Audiology Puzzles
What Is an Audiologist? au·di·ol·o·gist \ȯ-dē-’ä-lə-jist\ nounThe health-care professional who specializes in evaluating, diagnosing, treating, and managing hearing loss and balance disorders in adults and children. Materials Checklist Printed puzzlesPencil or
EARTHQUAKE! Part 1
Welcome! Geophysics graduate student, Elizabeth Sherrill is here to introduce the Science Fest 2020 seismology series and explain how to earn your Master of Disaster badge. How Seismometers Work Resident IU faculty member and seismologist, Dr. Michael Hamburger explains.
Join a Community Science Eclipse Project
Even if the weather threatens to spoil the eclipse for us, it will get dark during the eclipse on April 8. We will notice it and so will animals.
Citizen Science: Tree Leaf Monitoring
The Citizen Science of Phenology Monitoring Inspired by Nature’s Notebook, a project of the National Phenology Network Phenology is the study of the life cycles of plants and animals. In this activity, you are going to make observations about the phenology of tree leaves. It’s a
A Science Fest Exclusive: Eclipses in History and Culture
The IUB Department of History joins Science Fest this year to bring you bite-sized stories about the influence of eclipses from history and their effects on culture, from 413 BCE to the 20th century!