Here are the step by step instructions for making the solar system model with quilling. Feel free to encourage your kids to innovate as well with their own designs. Quilling provides an opportunity ...

But with a cardboard box, a piece of glass or plastic and some tinfoil, you can make a reasonably functioning solar oven on your own. Bonus: You get to feel like MacGyver doing it.

Many makers start by building mock-ups from cardboard, but [Alex-08] has managed to build an R/C plane that actually flies, out of cardboard. If you’ve been thinking of building an R/C plane … ...

If you’ve ever seen an illustration of the solar system, the odds are good that it was wrong. Not that it messed up the order of the planets, but that the scale was completely off. "Every single ...

Tour of Hallam Observatory to-scale solar system model Social Sharing There's a little black wooden box in a farm field in Comber, Ont., about 50 kilometres east of Windsor.

Pick a good cardboard box. Aim for a box that's between 1 and 2 cubic feet in volume, or about the size of a typical beer cooler. We used a 10 x 10 x 14-inch shipping box from Amazon with great ...

I’ll bet you have a cardboard box. That and a few common supplies will let you build a pinhole camera/viewer that you can use to see an eclipse or the Sun. Just follow the steps in the captions.

Google, NASA team up to develop 3D solar system models. Experiencing the vastness and majesty of solar system is going to be more fun now. Google and NASA have come together to bring more than 60 ...

From weather balloons to solar system models, the rare total eclipse is inspiring students to learn more about astronomy and science. Students from more than 150 schools gathered for ‘light-and ...