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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Resonator
An experiment in resonance that demonstrates how to synchronize an applied force with an object's natural frequency and amplify the resulting motion.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Rotating Light
An experiment where polarized light is shone into a solution of sugared water, causing each of the colors in white light to change direction in varying amounts.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Secret Bells
An experiment demonstrating how sound vibrations transmit through metal.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Seeing Your Retina
Try this experiment where you examine the blood vessel network of your retina and the eye's blind spot. Includes a safety precaution.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Short Circuit
Learn how fuses and circuit breakers work to stop the flow of electricity in a circuit so as to prevent fires. This experiment requires caution.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Soap Film Interference Model
In this experiment, students construct models of larger red and smaller blue waves on index cards, and use them to investigate how light behaves when it is reflected off the front and the back of soap film.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Sound Sandwich
Make a simple wind instrument and use it to experiment with pitch.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Stereo Sound
Try this experiment to understand how your ears are able to locate where a sound is coming from.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Vortex
Investigate centripetal force in this activity where you create a mini-tornado in two connected soda bottles.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Your Father's Nose
After constructing a frame with a mirror made of horizontal strips, explore what your face would look like if it was made up of half of someone else's.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Your Sense of Taste
Investigate the taste receptors on your tongue in this Life Saver tasting experiment.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Balancing Ball
Experience the same lift that flies airplanes with this activity where you suspend a ball in a stream of air. This activity illustrates Bernoulli's principle.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Bubble Tray
This activity allows students to create and observe giant bubbles.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Color Contrast
Did you know that different-colored backgrounds cause colored objects to look different? In this investigation, students will experience this phenomenon.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Color Table
Did you know that different-colored backgrounds cause colored objects to look different? In this investigation, students will experience this phenomenon.
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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: 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: 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: 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: Size and Distance
An experiment in depth perception where you investigate how you perceive the size and distance of objects with one eye closed.
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Steve Spangler Science: Soda Bottle Prank
This resource demonstrates atmospheric pressure using a soda bottle and water.
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Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: Scientific Inquiry: Outcomes and Predictions
A video and a short multiple-choice quiz on identifying possible outcomes and making predictions.
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Science Bob: The Lincoln High Dive
Instructions for a science demonstration of Newton's first law of motion using common supplies. Learn how to turn the demonstration into an experiment.
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