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Search Search this site. Learn about how to balance things using toothpicks and marshmallows. Learn about adaptive changes that organisms make to survive in their environment. Learn about light absorption with black markers and how the color black contains all the colors of the rainbow. Learn about the physics behind catapults and how to launch things. Use balloons to learn about static electricity in three different activities.

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A word problem activity that requires math to solve puzzles. Learn about the properties of this Goo that makes it not quite a liquid and not quite a solid. Construct a contraption to extract a ball from a circle of string. Difficulty can be varied by changing the size of the circle or placing the objects in a box.

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Test different foods' fat content by rubbing the foods on pieces of brown paper and comparing fat absorption. Measure arm length and body length to see if they are perfect squares or perfect rectangles. It All Adds Up. Try to keep an ice cube form melting for 30 minutes using a set of materials. You can find this page online at: Reproduction of material from this website without written permission is strictly prohibited. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our Terms and Conditions of Fair Use.

Do you love playing on a seesaw? Why is it that depending on where you sit on the beam, and the weight of the person on the other side, you either fly up into the air or fall down to the ground? And why is it so difficult to perfectly balance the seesaw? It can all be explained with physics! In this activity, you will investigate the balancing forces of a seesaw—with a seesaw made of candles!

Have you ever used a crazy straw? Some spiral their way up.

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Others have fancy colors or decorations. Some are thin and others are wide. But just about all of them leave you sipping your drink from about the same distance. Wouldn't it be fun to poke your head out of an upstairs window and secretly take a sip from a drink way below? Would it even be possible? With this activity, you'll see if you can set your own record for the longest working straw!

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Have you ever wondered how visual illusions are made? When we see special effects in movies, or a magic show, we often witness illusions that challenge our ability to correctly perceive things. One way in which our eyes play tricks on us is through afterimages. Afterimages are the images you see after staring at an object for several seconds and then looking away.

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In this science activity, you will look at afterimages to reveal the secrets of how your eyes see color. If you write with your right hand, you may also prefer to draw, throw a ball, or eat food with your right hand, but have you ever wondered if your right foot is also more dominant than your left foot? What about your right eye and ear — do you prefer to use them more than your left ones?

In this activity, you will get to find out whether people have a sidedness — that is, whether they generally prefer to do activities with one side of their body — and what that might say… Read more. Did you ever bake your ice cream?

An insulated bag or a cooler filled with ice can keep a treat like ice cream cool. Using the same principles, it is even possible to bake ice cream in a hot oven and have it come out frozen!

This activity will teach you how. Have you ever tried to blow a bubble, and no matter how hard you try, the bubble just will not form? Why does this happen?

Why do bubbles form at all, and why is it harder to blow bubbles sometimes? In this activity, we will explore the limits of how big our bubbles can get! If you have ever tried to make bubbles using plain water, you may have seen that it does not work.