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PBS

Pbs Kids: Cartesian Diver

For Students 3rd - 8th
This PBS site shows users how they can make their own cartesian divers, discover how it works, and have some fun at the same time.
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PBS

Pbs Kids: Colored Water Convection

For Students 3rd - 8th
This PBS site allows users to learn more about water convection as they discover how to demonstrate the way convection currents form. A fun science project!
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Exploratorium

Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Fading Dot

For Students 9th - 10th
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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Teachers TryScience

Teachers Try Science: Catch the Wave!

For Students 3rd - 8th
A resource that explores sound waves and how they work. Offers activities online and offline. Requires Adobe Flash.
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PBS

Pbs Kids: Dragonfly Tv: Do It: Amazing Air!

For Students 3rd - 8th
PBS site sets up an investigation that you can do at home to see the effects of invisible air.
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PBS

Pbs Kids: Bernoulli's Blowout!

For Students 3rd - 8th
PBS site allows users to get a front row seat at a pushing contest between fast-moving and slow-moving air.
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Exploratorium

Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Lateral Inhibition

For Students 9th - 10th
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

Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Look Into Infinity

For Students 9th - 10th
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

Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Looking a Little Spotty

For Students 9th - 10th
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

Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Magic Wand

For Students 9th - 10th
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

Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Magnetic Lines of Force

For Students 9th - 10th
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

Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Magnetic Pendulums

For Students 9th - 10th
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

Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Magnetic Shielding

For Students 9th - 10th
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

Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Make Your Own Rainstick

For Students 9th - 10th
Create a traditional instrument called a rainstick in this activity.
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Exploratorium

Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Milk Makes Me Sick

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Exploratorium

Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Modulated Coil

For Students 9th - 10th
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

Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Moire Patterns

For Students 9th - 10th
In this activity, students will use Moire patterns to demonstrate wave interference.
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Exploratorium

Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Momentum Machine

For Students 9th - 10th
A quick activity to see how to speed up your spin on a chair.
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Exploratorium

Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Motor Effect

For Students 9th - 10th
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

Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Non Round Rollers

For Students 9th - 10th
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

Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Ocean Acidification in a Cup

For Students 9th - 10th
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

Exploratorium: Science Snacks: On the Fringe

For Students 9th - 10th
This activity will have students exploring interference patterns by observing air trapped between two pieces of clear plastic.
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Exploratorium

Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Organ Pipe

For Students 9th - 10th
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

Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Overlapping Spot

For Students 9th - 10th
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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