Children's Museum of Houston

Making a Soda Geyser Generator – Soda Geyser Series #1

Making a Soda Geyser Generator – Soda Geyser Series #1 At the Children's Museum of Houston, we love doing stuff with soda geysers (when you drop Mentos into a 2L bottle of soda to make it spray out everywhere). We ... more»

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Stretch Your Potential

Stretch Your Potential As Homer Simpson once said, "In this house, we obey the Laws of Thermodynamics!" And we do the same thing here at the Children's Museum of Houston! To summarize the ... more»

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Crush, Crush, Fizz, Fizz

Crush, Crush, Fizz, Fizz Let's talk for a moment about reaction rates. There are several ways to increase the rate of reaction - increasing temperature, agitation, and increasing surface area. In regards to this ... more»

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Droids at CMH

Droids at CMH Last Saturday we hosted our annual Young Inventors' Showcase and we were visited by two very special guests - astromech droids based on those seen in Star Wars! Dan Stuettgen ... more»

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Science and Art

Science and Art I've spent the last several days at the Association of Children's Museums InterActivity 2010 conference in St. Paul, Minnesota. On Thursday night, we had a reception at the Science Museum ... more»

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Light Painting at CMH

Light Painting at CMH One of my favorite activities to do at the Children's Museum of Houston is our light painting where we take a photo of lights that the kids wave around. For ... more»

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I Like My Kindle’s eInk

I Like My Kindle’s eInk I just got the most recent version of Kindle and really like using it. There are various reasons for it, but one of the best reasons, in my opinion, is ... more»

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Rubik’s Cube solved by…Legos?

Rubik’s Cube solved by…Legos? Last month, I posted an entry about how the Rubik's cube is turning 30 this year and, with it, a video of the world record for the fastest solving of ... more»

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Sixth Sense

Sixth Sense This has got to be one of the coolest interfaces ever! This is one of the new technologies to come out of the MIT Media Lab's Fluid Interfaces group. This ... more»

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Recycled Houses with Dan Phillips

Recycled Houses with Dan Phillips I am VERY excited to say that will be hosting Dan Phillips at the Children's Museum of Houston this Saturday (Feb 6, 2010) from 1-3pm as a part of the ... more»

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