Dry Ice, and everything nice, that is what Steve Spangler’s Ultimate Dry Ice Kit is made of

Product Review Dry ice: It’s so cold it burns. It goes straight from a solid to a gas. It creates eerie fog and wicked bubbles. In other words, dry ice is perfect for science experiments that kids will talk about forever. So Summer Counts jumped on the opportunity to review Steve Spangler’s New Ultimate Dry… [Continue Reading]

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Jessica Alba: Spy kids and real kids

About a week before the release of Spy Kids: All the Time in the World 4D, SummerCounts and some other lucky bloggers got to chat with Jessica Alba herself. Alba, who has given birth to her second child by now, was fielding tons of curious questions about motherhood and her new movie Spy Kids: All… [Continue Reading]

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Interview with Science in The Rockies’ Steve Spangler

Earlier this month Summer Counts had the opportunity to attend Science In The Rockies Annual Teacher Training (Read coverage in EdNews Parent). After the event, we caught up with the man of the hour, Steve Spangler, and asked nosy questions. Who is Steve Spangler? SC: When did you know you wanted to be a teacher?… [Continue Reading]

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Is hands-on learning outdated?

How many times has a parent uttered the words “We had to make a change for Johnny. He is a project based learner.” What about the reverse? Have you heard parents bragging about their kid’s school because of the awesome hands-on projects that sparred imagination and motivation for their kids that even kept going beyond… [Continue Reading]

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The missing ingredient in education reform

Education reforms are ineffective because: There is not enough money The teachers are not good enough The kids are lazy The parents are not doing enough Puh-lease! The fact that the United States is not performing at the same education level as their international peers is nothing new. Neither is the blame game. Who is at… [Continue Reading]

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