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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Mirrorly a Window
Understand that what you see is often affected by your expectations of what you think you should see. This activity will explore the sensation you feel when your brain expects to see something.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Modulated Coil
Can you hear a magnet? In this activity you will be able to transfer the sound from your iPhone, iPod or radio to a cassette-tape player.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Moire Patterns
In this activity, students will use Moire patterns to demonstrate wave interference.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Momentum Machine
A quick activity to see how to speed up your spin on a chair.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Motor Effect
Create a simple device to see how a force is exerted on a current by a magnetic field. This activity shows how an electric motor can be made with this force.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Non Round Rollers
Can you build rollers that are not circle shaped? In this activity, build non-circular rollers that a flat panel can roll smoothly on.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Ocean Acidification in a Cup
In this activity, you can observe how ocean acidification can have big consequences. This activity has students creating a cup that has a carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere that allows them to watch how the water changes beneath the atmosphere.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: On the Fringe
This activity will have students exploring interference patterns by observing air trapped between two pieces of clear plastic.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Organ Pipe
Learn about resonance with this activity where a tuning fork's sound can be amplified! The sound is amplified by holding the fork over a pipe and changing the pipe's length.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Overlapping Spot
Do you know how to make a bright spot brighter? In this activity, your eyes will send conflicting information to the brain. See how you perceive what is on the paper.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Parabolas
Recreate this optical illusion using two parabolic mirrors to make it appear like an object is in the center, when it is really just its image. This experiment requires special equipment which may need to be purchased.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Persistence of Vision
This experiment demonstrates how the eye retains its memory of what it sees for a brief time, allowing us to construct the overall image in our minds from the parts we see.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Pinhole Magnifier
Explore properties of light by making a pinhole magnifier using simple materials and a light source.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Pipes of Pan
An experiment to create a device using cardboard tubes that will separate a mixture of sounds in a background into their different frequencies, from low to high depending on the tube length.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Polarized Light Mosaic
Learn how to make stained glass window art using the phenomenon of polarized light.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Proprioception
The human body has proprioceptors that send signals to the brain so that we are aware of our body's position and movements. Try these simple experiments to learn about proprioception and about other visual and tactile clues that assist...
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Pupil
Try this experiment to see how light affects the size of your pupils.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Radioactive Decay Model
A simple experiment where pennies are thrown, then half are removed, to simulate how radioactive decay works.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Radiohead
Try this experiment to see how sound transmits as vibrations through solid matter. You will use a toothbrush to listen to the radio.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Remote Control Roller
Investigate the forces of electrons and protons in this experiment with electrostatic charges.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Resonant Pendulum
An experiment in resonance that demonstrates how to make a pendulum swing widely by exerting only a small force.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Resonant Rings
An experiment in resonance that demonstrates how the vibrations of an earthquake affect buildings of different sizes and degrees of flexibility.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Resonator
An experiment in resonance that demonstrates how to synchronize an applied force with an object's natural frequency and amplify the resulting motion.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Rotating Light
An experiment where polarized light is shone into a solution of sugared water, causing each of the colors in white light to change direction in varying amounts.