Implementation of Science by Mail (SBM)
“Science by Mail” (SBM) offers school-children in grades 3 to 9 a glimpse of the cutting edge research that is
taking place at one of the world's leading research institute, The Weizmann Institute of Science. The program
too, includes four in-depth topics, each from a different scientific field and based on the research conducted in a
different laboratory at the Weizmann Institute. The in-depth topics are spread over the school-year and once the
activities are uploaded, they can be accessed online anytime, at home or at school. The activities are based on
simple experiments that can be performed at home, which lead even young participants to a much better
understanding of complicated ideas and, equally important, to the process of scientific research and scientific
thought. As in “MBM”, in addition to the in- depth topics, participants receive a weekly newsletter with
additional experiments, riddles and challenges. The newsletter challenges and experiments are discussed and
results compared in the weekly chat with the Science by Mail team, researchers at the Weizmann Institute of
Science. The chat is a unique opportunity for participants to have a conversation, share their ideas and get
feedback directly from researchers of science