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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Dipping Bird
Get a visual representation of a heat engine by looking at the dipping bird. This activity analyzes the steps of the dipping bird to compare it how a heat engine work.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Disappearing Act
Learn about camouflage animals in this activity. This activity has students cutting out "animals" that blend into the background to see how it is hard to detect these "animals".
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Disappearing Glass Rods
In this activity, you will make a glass object disappear by eliminating the reflection from and the refraction by the glass object.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Doppler Effect
Learn about how the Doppler effect explains the change in pitch as a sound source moves in relation to you with this activity. This activity has the students making their own Doppler ball.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Downhill Race
An activity that explores how two cylinders that are identical in shape and mass may travel down a hill differently due to how their mass is distributed. Learn how the distribution of mass in an object can affect its translational...
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Drawing Board
In this activity, students will create a pendulum that creates beautiful designs with its repetitive patterns. Study the movement of pendulums with these designs.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Duck Into Kaleidoscope
Create hundreds of images of yourself in this activity by making a mirrored kaleidoscope.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Eddy Currents
An activity exploring eddy currents by having a magnet fall through a metallic and nonmetallic tube.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Electroscope
In this activity, students will build electroscopes from common materials. With their electroscopes, students can then conduct experiments to find out what happens to charged objects.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Fading Dot
An activity with an optical illusion that will have your eyes seeing it and then not seeing it! Learn the science behind what makes the dot on the page "disappear".
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Falling Feather
Recreate Galileo famous demonstration to show that a heavy and light weighted object fall at the same acceleration in a vacuum.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Falling Rhythm
An engineering design process project for students to create a regular rhythm of beats by spacing weights along a string and then dropping the string.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Far Out Corners
An activity with an optical illusion that will have your eyes seeing a cluster of boxes but is it really boxes? In this activity, explore this illusion and what happens to trick your brain to seeing what it sees.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Feeling Pressured
Feel the effects of air pressure in this activity! Activity will have students feeling a squeezing sensation as the difference in air pressure causes the air to rush from high to low pressure.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Flying Tinsel
Can you make tinsel fly? In this activity, experiment with positive and negative charges to suspend tinsel into the air!
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Fog Chamber
Create a fog chamber by rapidly expanding air in a jar in this activity. This activity uses a match in a jar to bunch water into tiny droplets.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Gas Model
In this activity, students will get a visualization of gas atoms in constant motion, colliding into each other, and the walls of the container they are in.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Gel Electrophoresis
An activity to create gel electrophoresis on a budget! This activity has students building their own gel electrophoresis and then using electricity to separate the dyes.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Giant Lens
In this activity, students create an image that hangs in midair by using a lens.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Giant Sieve Sorter
In this activity students will be creating a giant sieve! The sieve should allow some objects through but create a boundary to keep others out.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Give and Take
An activity for students to explore how dark-colored materials absorb and emit more energy vs. light-colored material.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Glue Stick Sunset
A demonstration exploring light scattering to show why the sky is blue and sunsets are red.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Gray Step
An activity to test your perception to see if you can distinguish between different shades of gray.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Groovy Sounds
Using a paper, pencil, and pin students will build a phonograph in this activity. Students will be able to listen to their favorite record with this homemade record player.