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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Viral Packaging
Make an icosahedron, a shape with twenty triangular faces. This shape is used by most viruses to contain their genetic material in the most efficient way possible.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Vocal Visualizer
Create a vocalizer device out of PVC piping and, with the help of a laser pointer, use it to project a visualization of the sound vibrations you make with it.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Vortex
Investigate centripetal force in this activity where you create a mini-tornado in two connected soda bottles.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Water Bottle Membranophone
Try making this instrument that incorporates a stretched membrane. As air is blown into the attached bottle, sound vibrations are produced. With the addition of finger holes, different sounds can be made.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Whirling Watcher
Make a stroboscope and investigate how to make it seem like the image you look at appears to move.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Your Father's Nose
After constructing a frame with a mirror made of horizontal strips, explore what your face would look like if it was made up of half of someone else's.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Your Sense of Taste
Investigate the taste receptors on your tongue in this Life Saver tasting experiment.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Afterimage
An activity that explains why you see an afterimage after looking at something bright like a camera flash or lamp. Understand that an afterimage is a lingering visual impression that happens as a result of the chemical changes in the...
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Anti Gravity Mirror
Using the property of reflection, this activity will have students appearing to defy gravity.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Anti Sound Spring
Get a visual of how waves travel and interact by using a spring in this activity.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Avalanche
In this activity, pour a salt-sand mixture into a CD case to notice how the particles separate themselves. Observe the effect known as granular convection as the smaller sand particles fall beneath the larger particles leaving a layered...
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Balancing Ball
Experience the same lift that flies airplanes with this activity where you suspend a ball in a stream of air. This activity illustrates Bernoulli's principle.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Balancing Stick
An activity to study how the position of the center of gravity is affected by the distribution of mass of an object. This activity ask students to balance a dowel on their finger and by moving the playdoh around the dowel they see how it...
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Bee Hummer
An engineering design project to use simple materials to make an instrument to mimic the sound of a swarm of bees.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Bernoulli Levitator
This activity illustrates Bernoulli principle by suspending an object in the air by blowing down on it.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Bicycle Wheel Gyro
Did you know that by holding a spinning bicycle wheel you can make a rotating chair spin? This activity will have you spinning as you use a bicycle wheel as a gyroscope.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Bird in a Cage
Learn about the receptor cells in your eye's by completing this activity! In this activity, observe how by staring at one color you will see another due to adaptation of the cones in your eye.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Blind Spot: To See, or Not to See
The blind spot in human vision is described and illustrated.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Blind Spot
Did you know that there is a part of your eye that does not give you any visual information? In this activity learn about this part of the retina called the "blind spot".
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Bone Stress
This activity uses polarized lights to show stress patterns in a clear plastic fork. Students can relate the stresses in plastic to stresses in the bone.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Bronx Cheer Bulb
In this activity observe how light sources flash as you give them a raspberry. As you complete the activity, make a conclusion about what is wiggling the lights or you.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Bubble Suspension
Explore the principles of buoyancy and semipermeability in this activity by using bubbles and dry ice.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Bubble Tray
This activity allows students to create and observe giant bubbles.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Cd Spectroscope
Analyze light by creating a CD spectroscope in this activity. See the whole spectrum of light with the spectroscope.