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Always Learning - January 2012

Homemade Lava Lamps

January 26th 2012 03:02

I recently implemented "Science on Saturday" projects with my youngest daughter. This little ritual is a hit. One of our favorites are the Easy Lava Lamps we made with her cousin.

Easy Lava Lamps

You will need:

Plastic bottle (water or pop)
Water
Vegetable oil
Food coloring
Alka-Seltzer tablets (generic is fine)

Wash the label off your plastic bottle and then fill approximately a quarter of the way full with water.
Pour vegetable oil into the bottle, almost to the top.
Let the oil and water separate and then squeeze about a dozen drops of food coloring inside.
Watch the coloring fall through the oil and mix with the water.
Break an Alka-Seltzer tablet into small pieces and then drop one piece into the bottle.
When the action slows down add another little piece.

Check out a couple more fun projects here

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Posted By: Sylvie Branch - Category: Age 3-4, Age 4-6, Age 6-8, Age 9-11, Cooking, Craft

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Build a Better Snowman

January 12th 2012 03:06

The basics of snowman building are simple.

It does not take any special knowledge to understand that a snowman is traditionally three snow balls on top of each other, with the largest on the bottom.

But there is a difference between knowing and doing, so the following tips can help make snowman building a success.

Educate to protect against security threats

January 6th 2012 18:58

It is common knowledge that security threats online are a real and present danger. Personal information, trade secrets and other company information is important to keep under lock and key. The problem is, knowing how to keep it all safe is NOT common knowledge.

Ongoing education should be a given in todays society. Technology is moving fast. What you learned in school, ten years ago, or one year ago, could very well be obsolete once you land a job.

Whether you own a company, or are the person in charge of keeping information safe, it can be overwhelming. You can lock everything up, only to have an employee accidentally sabatoge the system.

The very thing that can be the vehicle to hurt your company, can help you work on a solution. There are great courses on security awareness available online. It is important to keep everyone always learning. Set up the online security awareness courses to develop security conscious employees.

Resolve to protect, educate and safely serve customers by maintaining security awareness throughout your company.