Silly Science Sunday 2024

Celebrate your amazing brain with us! 

OH WOW! hosts a festival focused on hands-on, interactive STEM displays, exhibits, and stage shows!

Addresses a documented need in our community to improve STEM learning among our school-aged population, especially preschool, elementary, and middle school students in the Youngstown, Ohio area.

**Admission Free – No registration required**

Make & Take Handout

Online Tutorials

Get out those pipe cleaners and beads to make a wide variety of neurons!   Sometimes the best way to learn about something is to hold it in your hand.

Elementary School (Grades: K-5)

Basic:
Pipe Cleaner

This neuron pipe cleaners of 5 different colors: one color each for the dendrites, cell body, axon, myelin sheath and synaptic terminal. Any colors will do- pick your favorites!

Basic:
Pipe Cleaner + Beads

Materials:

  • 2-6 long pipe cleaners
  • scissors
  • 14 beads

Neuron Hat

Materials:

  • 14 long pipe cleaners
  • scissors

Middle School & High School (Grades: 6-12)

Advanced:
Pipe Cleaner Neurons

Materials:

  • 20+ long pipe cleaners
  • scissors

Advanced:
Beady Neuron

Get out those beads + string and make a neuron!

Materials:

  • Wire
  • 65 beads (4 different colors)
    • 42 beads for the dendrites,
    • 10 beads for the cell body,
    • 12 beads for the axon and
    • 1 bead for the synaptic terminal

Advanced:
String Neuron

If you have ever played any “string games,” then this neuron model should be easy for you to make. Follow the steps on this page to make a neuron from string.

Materials:

  • A loop of string or yarn (about 3 ft. in length).

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