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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Cool Hot Rod

For Students 9th - 10th
This activity will show students how objects change size when heated and cooled. Students will observe a metal tube have expansion and contraction.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Corner Reflector

For Students 9th - 10th
By creating a kaleidoscope using a set of hinged mirrors students can see themselves as others do! This activity uses mirrors to create multiple images of an object.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Coupled Resonant Pendulums

For Students 9th - 10th
Understand about a pendulum's natural or resonant frequency in this activity where you create your own pendulums. Students make a pendulum out of PVC pipe, string, and hex nuts.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Coupled Resonant Pendulums 2

For Students 9th - 10th
Understand the concept of resonance to allow you to cause two pendulums to swing in an identical cycle. Pendulum are constructed from simple materials like string, pencils, paper clips, and pennies.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Cup Speaker

For Students 9th - 10th
This activity will have students creating their own speaker with a paper cup, coil of wire, and magnet. The speaker operates by changing electric current into sound.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Cylindrical Mirror

For Students 9th - 10th
In this investigation, see yourself as others see you by using a cylindrical mirror instead of a flat mirror.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Depth Spinner

For Students 9th - 10th
Observe adaptation and perception in the activity. This activity will have students watching a continuously rotation spiral to see what happens as you watch it and then look away.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Designer Ears

For Students 9th - 10th
Why do animals' ears all look different? In this activity, you will research all shapes and function of ears to create "better" ears.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Diffraction

For Students 9th - 10th
Demonstrate light bending called diffraction in this activity.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Dipping Bird

For Students 9th - 10th
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

For Students 9th - 10th
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

For Students 9th - 10th
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

For Students 9th - 10th
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

For Students 9th - 10th
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

For Students 9th - 10th
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

For Students 9th - 10th
Create hundreds of images of yourself in this activity by making a mirrored kaleidoscope.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Eddy Currents

For Students 9th - 10th
An activity exploring eddy currents by having a magnet fall through a metallic and nonmetallic tube.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Falling Feather

For Students 9th - 10th
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

For Students 9th - 10th
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

For Students 9th - 10th
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

For Students 9th - 10th
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: Fog Chamber

For Students 9th - 10th
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

For Students 9th - 10th
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

For Students 9th - 10th
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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