Teachers Try Science: Musical Coat Hangers

Ancient people used musical pipes as early as the third millennium BCE. Young scientists explore the workings of musical pipes to better understand the relationship with frequency, length of pipe, and sound waves. They determine the...

Accompany a reading of First Come the Zebra written and illustrated by Lynne Barasch with a teacher's guide equipped with before reading, vocabulary, and after reading activities. Additional social studies,...

Pupils construct and play various musical instruments made from straws and bottles. They investigate how changes in their instruments result in tone changes. Learners change the lengths and amount of water in the instruments and...

Do science videos really enhance learning? Pupils examine the facts in a video about videos. The narrator shows how science scholars perform on a quiz after watching a related video, then how they perform on the same quiz after watching...

An activity from the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry where participants make white glue from milk curds and then test it out, trying different variations of the ingredients. They learn about the denaturing of the protein casein...

Learn about the Bernoulli effect by building an airplane wing, or airfoil, and making it fly.

Students demonstrate the properties of inertia with some common kitchen materials.

Discuss personal ideas about science and how a filmmaker can employ the arts to promote science. After reading an article, young scientists will discover how James Cameron is trying to interest people in the oceans. In groups, they will...

In this sound conductors lesson, students use a metal and a plastic coat hanger to determine how sound travels through each and which is more effective.