The Couch Potato Lab
The Couch Potato Lab (CPL) are online episodes that cover curriculum-based content in fun and creative ways through experiments, demonstrations and activities!
Latest Couch Potato Episodes
Pooter Prowling
Let’s safely catch and observe insects close up. Today, we’re going to be entomologists and participate in fieldwork with pooters!
Egg Drop
Get ready to protect your precious eggs! Today’s Friday Funday, we will make a capsule or helmet for a ‘daredevil’ egg to drop from a height!
Ice Cream In A Bag
Today we are making ice cream in only 5 minutes! What? How do you ask? That’s easy…IN A BAG! Let’s go!
Oil Spill Clean-up
Your mission for this Friday Funday is to clean up “oil” from a simulated oil spill disaster! Birds and surrounding wildlife will thank you!
Coding Maze Mat-ness
If you play this game, then you’ll learn about computer coding logic and laugh a lot, else you’ll miss out on a lot of fun!… In computer coding, instructions are written in the format of “If… Then… Else…”. This is known as ‘Programming logic’.
Rev Your Rover
In this project campers will try to build their own mars rovers using Edison Bots! Camper will build their rover and will code and program their Edison bots to execute a series of commands that will guide their Mars-Edison Rover.
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