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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: 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: 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.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Stripped Down Motor
Learn how to make an electric motor in this simple activity.
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Starry Skies: How Do Fossils Form?
Directions and materials needed to make a modern day fossil.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Aluminum Air Battery
Create a battery that is strong enough to power a light or a small motor in this activity. Activity uses simple materials such as: aluminum foil, salt water, and charcoal to make this battery.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Breakfast Proteins
Model the process of transcription and translation with this simple activity using cereal chains.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Hand Battery
In this activity students will create a battery by placing their hands on two different metal plates.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Marshmallow Puff Tube
An engineering design process project where you will try different lengths of cardboard tubes to see how far you can blow a marshmallow. Project uses Newton's principles of unbalanced force to shoot the marshmallow far.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Whack a Stack
Investigate Newton's first law of motion using just a set of wood blocks.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Electrical Fleas
Create your own "flea" circus in this activity by using the effects of static electricity. Students will observe a charged object attraction to the opposite charge causing the object to jump.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Slinky in Hand
Use a Slinky toy to investigate the resonance of transverse and longitudinal waves.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Vector Toy
Try this walking toy activity to learn about the directional forces that act on it to control its movements.
Science Bob Pflugfelder
Science Bob: Eggshell Geode Crystals
Science Bob provides instructions for how to form geode crystals in eggshells using common supplies with information on why it works.
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Ucar: National Center for Atmospheric Research: Severe Weather Storms [Pdf]
Teachers and/or students are given four scientific experiments related to severe weather. Included are making clouds, homemade lightening, tornado in a bottle, and dissecting hailstones. Dramatic photos of severe weather conditions are...
Huntington Library
Huntington Library:garden Lesson Plans: Fruit Salad Hold the Dna, Please [Pdf]
After learning about DNA and how it is used in crime scene analysis, learners take part in a lab activity where they extract DNA from ripened fruit.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Mirrorly a Window
Understand that what you see is often affected by your expectations of what you think you should see. This activity will explore the sensation you feel when your brain expects to see something.
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