Science Experiments Teacher Resources

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.

Create an optical illusion with this activity. Understand what your brain interprets if it receives conflicting information from your eyes.

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.

An activity to help you create a density column that contains layers of liquids that are separated by different densities.

View a total internal reflection by using gelatin and a laser with this activity.

Learn how to make an electric motor in this simple activity.

Directions and materials needed to make a modern day fossil.

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.

Model the process of transcription and translation with this simple activity using cereal chains.

In this activity students will create a battery by placing their hands on two different metal plates.

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.

Investigate Newton's first law of motion using just a set of wood blocks.

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.

Use a Slinky toy to investigate the resonance of transverse and longitudinal waves.

Try this walking toy activity to learn about the directional forces that act on it to control its movements.

Science Bob provides instructions for how to form geode crystals in eggshells using common supplies with information on why it works.

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...

After learning about DNA and how it is used in crime scene analysis, students take part in a lab activity where they extract DNA from ripened fruit.

Why does a stuffy nose affect our sense of taste? Who knows? PBS site follows Leah, Folabi and Julia as they attempt to answer this question by doing some of their own research.

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.

This site presents a procedure for creating a cartesian diver, a miniature submarine which rises or sinks depending upon the water pressure within a closed bottle. The site also introduces basic concepts of water and air pressure.

Did you know that a piece of iron can lose its magnetism if heated too high? There is a point called the Curie point when iron is heated to a high enough temperature that its iron atoms are scrambled and can't line up to form a magnetic...

Is the mass the same as the weight? Try this little experiment to find out the answer.

An online activity which illustrates the magnetic property of diamagnetism associated with water. Contains a simple procedure and then a good explanation of the magnetic interactions that were displayed by the grapes.