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Science Sundays: How to Make Oobleck?!?

Science Sundays: How to Make Oobleck?!?
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(KERO) — Welcome back to Science Sundays! Memorial Day weekend is known as the unofficial start to summer, and it's sure feeling like summer out there next week! So I wanted to find some fun and simple science activities you can do inside with the kids when it gets too hot to play outside.

Now we all know about slime and ... Have you heard of Oobleck? It's not a solid, it's not a fluid, it's a non-Newtonian fluid. And the funny name comes from a Dr. Seuss book. Check it out:

Science Sundays: How to Make Oobleck

Teach your students more about the states of matter.
Here's a great resource 27 easy hands-on sensory science experiments and projects for kids in preschool, kindergarten, and elementary school.

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