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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.
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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.