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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.

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Avoid an Audience Riot - How to Write a Great Introduction for Your Next Speaker

As a professional speaker, I’ve learned over the years the importance of a good introduction and how detrimental a bad intro can be to the start of even a good presentation. We’ve all probably been in an audience and experienced an introduction that is in itself a mini-speech. These are the intros that go on [...]...

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[ Sun, 07 Jun 2009 19:36:02 +0000 ]

Growing Bacteria Experiment Helps BJ and Howie from Alice 105.9 Search for “Things” in the Studio

BJ and Howie are familiar voices to morning listeners of Alice 105.9. Whenever their conversation veers off on a science tangent, I know that my phone might ring. Several months ago, Howie was so certain that the studio was infected with mold spores that he paid to have his workplace tested. Any guesses? That’s right… [...]...

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[ Mon, 29 Dec 2008 21:32:16 +0000 ]

Growing Bacteria Experiment Helps BJ and Howie from Alice 105.9 Search for “Things” in the Studio

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[ Mon, 29 Dec 2008 21:32:16 +0000 ]

Floating Potato Debate - Alice�105.9

Just got a call from Slacker and Steve at Alice 105.9 with this question… “Do potatoes float in water?” I’ll give you a second to think… Potatoes sink in regular water, but they’ll float in salt water or sugar water. Here’s the experiment that thousands of science teachers do each year with their students about floating and [...]...

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[ Thu, 23 Oct 2008 23:56:04 +0000 ]

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 [...]...

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[ Fri, 16 May 2008 23:37:51 +0000 ]

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 [...]...

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[ Thu, 01 May 2008 15:28:49 +0000 ]

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 [...]...

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[ Tue, 18 Mar 2008 20:37:15 +0000 ]

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 [...]...

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[ Wed, 27 Feb 2008 23:28:33 +0000 ]

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. [...]...

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[ Sat, 18 Mar 2006 04:02:45 +0000 ]

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 [...]...

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[ Wed, 23 Nov 2005 15:57:27 +0000 ]

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 [...]...

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[ Fri, 18 Nov 2005 18:11:03 +0000 ]

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 [...]...

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[ Fri, 18 Nov 2005 04:36:29 +0000 ]

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 [...]...

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[ Wed, 09 Nov 2005 22:57:53 +0000 ]

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 [...]...

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[ Mon, 31 Oct 2005 18:37:43 +0000 ]

The Self-Carving, Exploding Pumpkin

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[ Mon, 31 Oct 2005 18:37:43 +0000 ]

The Self-Carving, Exploding Pumpkin

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[ Mon, 31 Oct 2005 18:37:43 +0000 ]

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