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Exploratorium: The Dirt on Dirt
What is dirt, and what makes some dirt superior for gardening? Find out in this virtual soil exploration.
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Exploratorium: Fermentation and Food
A brief article describing the process of fermentation and how this respiration process is used in cooking.
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Exploratorium: Drives and Gears
Discover the basic structure of the bicycle chain drive system, and find out how it has developed over the years.
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Exploratorium: Ice Stories: Dry Valleys
Learn about the work and research done in Antarctica's most arid regions know as the Dry Valleys.
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Exploratorium: Bread Science
From Chinese baozi to Armenian lavash, bread comes in thousands of forms. Find out, on the most basic level, what chemistry ties them all together.
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Exploratorium: Ice Stories: Dispatches From Polar Scientists: Ice
Water water everywhere. There are many types of ice found surrounding the poles of the earth. Get details on the varieties of ice studied by polar scientists.
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Exploratorium: Bicycle Wheel Gyro
Description of a museum exhibit in which the spinning bicycle wheel induces the rotation of a student in a rotating chair. Excellent demonstration idea.
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Exploratorium: Gyroscope
Description of a museum exhibit in which the forces exerted by two gyroscope wheels are analyzed. Excellent demonstration idea.
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Exploratorium: Laminar Flow
Laminar flow is explained at a basic level here at Exploratorium.com. Examples of things that use laminar flow are given. Links to related sites.
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Exploratorium: The Doppler Effect
Visit this page to see an animation demonstrating the Doppler Effect. How do sound waves and electromagnetic waves behave similarly with this effect?
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Exploratorium: Curie Temperature
In this experiment, students experience the Curie point--and what happens when a piece of iron gets too hot to attract a magnet.
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Exploratorium: Pinhole Magnifier
For elementary students, this would be a great demonstration on properties of light and optics. For middle school and high school, this would be a great start to a lab but needs experimentation. Site by Exploratorium.
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Exploratorium: Shimmer
Student will see this design shimmer! Use this site to learn about this optical illusion and what makes it happen.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Lateral Inhibition
An activity that will have you questioning which is in control, your eyes or your brain? This activity has students constructing simple paper tubes to investigate how the eyes work.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Look Into Infinity
In this activity students will create images of images of images that can repeat forever. Students will recreate this effect by setting up two acrylic plastic mirrors.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Looking a Little Spotty
By using digitally manipulated images, test your brain to see how much information is needed for your brain to produce an image.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Magic Wand
In this activity you will be investigating where the picture of a movie or slideshow actually is. Is it in the air, screen, the eye of the viewer or in the film.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Magnetic Lines of Force
In this activity discover the direction of the magnetic field by making patterns of the field visible with iron filings.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Magnetic Pendulums
See how electricity and magnetism interact with this activity. Activity has students creating a current by swinging a copper coil through a magnetic field. The copper coil will start a second coil swinging as well.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Magnetic Shielding
An activity where students test different materials to see which allow magnetic lines of force to pass through them and which block the magnetic lines of force.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Magnetic Suction
An experiment to find out how an old-style doorbell works.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Make Your Own Rainstick
Create a traditional instrument called a rainstick in this activity.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Michelle O (Formerly Vanna)
Here is an activity where students experiment with how the brain receives a strange view of a familiar object.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Milk Makes Me Sick
This activity will use glucose strips to explore the function of lactase enzyme in milk. Students will try to understand the lactase enzyme to figure out the basics of lactose intolerance.