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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Head Harp
Want to make music with your head? In this experiment, create a musical instrument by wrapping a string around your head.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Hole in Your Hand
Create an optical illusion with this activity. Understand what your brain interprets if it receives conflicting information from your eyes.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Hot Spot
An activity that will help students understand properties of mirrors by using a heater. Find the focal points by examining where the heat can be felt.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Inverse Square Law
Learn about how the intensity of light is governed by the inverse-square law with this activity. Activity has you experimenting to find that the intensity of light decreases as the inverse square of the distance.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Jacques Cousteau in Seashells
An experiment in optical illusions. Understand how seeing is a joint effort between your eyes and your brain.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Klutz Proof Density Column
An activity to help you create a density column that contains layers of liquids that are separated by different densities.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Laser Jello
View a total internal reflection by using gelatin and a laser with this activity.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Stripped Down Motor
Learn how to make an electric motor in this simple activity.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Size and Distance
An experiment in depth perception where you investigate how you perceive the size and distance of objects with one eye closed.
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Exploratorium: Build a Solar System
Make a scale model of the Solar System and learn the REAL definition of "space." You tell it how large to make the sun (in inches or millimeters) and the page will do all of the calculations for your scale model solar system and provide...
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Exploratorium: Surface Tension
Describes and explains the concept of Surface Tension. Also provides links to related topics.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Motor Effect
"A magnet exerts a force on current-carrying wire." This simple device shows how magnets affect wires with current in them, the basis of the electric motor. If you see, feel and understand this, the electric motor becomes very clear.
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Exploratorium: Critical Angle
Students can see light reflected and refracted in this demonstration. They will also discover the total internal reflection of light.
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Exploratorium: Structures Around the World
How does that bridge stay up? What are the forces acting on that column? This site helps students understand how structures can be built by having them build their own. Also provides images of real structures for kids to compare with...
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Aluminum Air Battery
Create a battery that is strong enough to power a light or a small motor in this activity. Activity uses simple materials such as: aluminum foil, salt water, and charcoal to make this battery.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Breakfast Proteins
Model the process of transcription and translation with this simple activity using cereal chains.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Hand Battery
In this activity students will create a battery by placing their hands on two different metal plates.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Marshmallow Puff Tube
An engineering design process project where you will try different lengths of cardboard tubes to see how far you can blow a marshmallow. Project uses Newton's principles of unbalanced force to shoot the marshmallow far.
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Exploratorium: Microscope Imaging Station: Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells
Stem cells have an enormous impact on the structure of a living creature. This site features still images as well as short videos of these cells in action.
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Exploratorium: The Tinkering Studio: Circuit Boards
Some history behind the function of the circuit board, with a guided activity guide for students to download.
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Exploratorium: Museum of Science, Art and Perception
This museum provides numerous online exhibits about everything from the science of sports to the Hubble Telescope. Each exhibit includes learning ideas, fun activities, articles, and learning games.
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Exploratorium: The Science of Baseball
Site provides very interesting information about the science behind baseball. Learn about the history and some necessary tools that you need to be a super baseball player. Send players back in time and compute their statistics relevant...
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Exploratorium: Science of Baseball: Biological Baseball
Younger students learn that hitting a baseball requires the use of various brain to body reaction activities and how those compare to the instincts and actions of animals.
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Exploratorium: The Faultline/seismic Slinky
A lesson plan for investigating longitudinal waves by use of a Slinky toy. Directions, questions, and applications to seismic waves are provided.