A
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Acid Rain: An Air Pollutant
- Acid Rain: The
Disappearing Statue
- Acid Rain – What
Causes Acid Rain?
- AIDS – What Is Acquired
Immune Deficiency Syndrome?
- Air Bags and Collisions
– How Do Airbags Prevent Automobile Injuries?
- Airfoil
Experiment 1
- Air: You Can't See It,
But It's There!
- Air Cannon
- Air Pollution Control
- Air Power
for Transportation
- Air
Pressure – A Demonstration
- Air Pressure–What Is
Air Pressure and How Can It Be Measured?
- Air Quality and
Transportation
- Aircraft Fire Rescue –
How Does a Firefighter Put Out an Airplane Fire?
- Altitude Tracking
– An Application of Geometry
- Animal or Plant?
- Antacid Tablet Race
- Antarctica I –
Why Do Scientists Go to Antarctica?
- Antarctica II –
Why Is Antarctica So Important to Our Planet?
- Archery – How Has
Technology Changed the Bow and Arrow over the Centuries?
- Asthma – What
Makes It Hard For People With Asthma To Breathe?
- Aurora Borealis –
What Creates These Shimmering Celestial Lights?
- Avalanche Rescue
– How Do Dogs Find People Buried in an Avalanche?
- The Awful 8: The
Pollution Play
B
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Balloon Safari – How
Does the Mara Ecosystem in Africa Work?
- Balloon Staging
– Rocket Staging
- Balloons – Why Are
They Stretchy?
- Balloon Vacuum – An
Air Pressure Experiment
- Battery Life
- Bee Stings –
Communication by Smell
- Being Alive
- Bells in Your Ears
– Transmission of Sound through Solid Objects
- Bernouilli Cans –
An Air Pressure Experiment
- Bicycles – How Do a
Bike and Its Rider Stay Up?
- Big
Trouble in Earthquake Country
- Biological Rhythms
- Blood Typing –
What Makes Different Blood Types Different?
- Body Fat – Is All
Fat Bad?
- Bone Marrow – What Is
a Bone Marrow Transplant and How Does It Work?
- Bones – How Do Bones
Get So Strong?
- Bottle Habitat
- Brain Injury – An
Eggs-periment with Helmets
- Breathing Easy
– Why We Need Plants in Order to Breathe
- Broken Bones –
Experience Splinting
C
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California
Blackworms Curriculum – 7-12th grade toxicology activity
- Cancer Causes – Why
Do People Get Cancer?
- Cancer treatments –
Is Cancer Curable?
- Car Engines – How
Do Car Engines Work?
- Circles of Light –
The Mathematics of Rainbows
- Circus High Wire – How
Do Tightrope Walkers Keep Their Balance?
- The City from the Ooze
- Cluster
Busters – Solve disease mysteries, investigate
environmental toxicants
- Cockroaches –
Designing a Trap
- Coffee – How Does a
Coffee Bean Become a Cup of Java?
- Collecting Micrometeorites
- Colored
Shadows – Using Lights to Mix Colors
- Community Problem Solving
- Contaminated Drinking Water
- Convection – How
Does It Happen in Our Atmosphere?
- Cooling
via Shade
- Cratering in Your Classroom
- Creating a Salad Dressing –
Applying the Scientific Method
- Cryogenics – Science
Fact or Science Fiction?
D
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Dancing Penny
– Exploring Heat Conduction and Air Pressure
- Demonstrating
Dew and Frost
- Density Balloon –
Using a Mylar Balloon to Explore Density
- Diabetes – What Is
Type 1 Diabetes?
- Diet and Nutrition –
How Does Fast Food Stack Up?
- Digging the Earth's Crust
- Dinosaur I – Finding
and Dating
- Dinosaur II –
Assembling a Dinosaur
- Does the Sun Influence the
Temperature of the Earth?
- Domed Stadiums – What
Keeps Inflated Stadiums Up?
- Do Plants Need Sunlight?
- DNA Fingerprinting – Can
Blood Found at a Crime Scene Really Identify a Criminal?
- Dolphin Communication
– Exploring Nonverbal Communication
- The
Dry Compass Experiment
E
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Egg Fun – Exploring Like a
Scientist
- Electric Cars –
Exploring Electrical Circuits
- Electricity:
Open and Short Circuits
- Electromagnet
- Make your own!
- Energy Transfer
– Exploring Momentum
- Engineering Toothpaste –
Everyday Chemistry
- Ergonomics – What Is
Ergonomics and Why Is It Important?
- Ethanol – How Does
It Make a Car Run?
- Equator – What Is Life
Like for Animals, Plants and People at the African Equator?
F
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Falling Test Tubes
– Exploring Adhesion and Cohesion
- Fire Sandwich – An
Experiment in Heat Conduction
- Finger Boomerangs
- Fingerprinting – A Lesson on
Classification
- Fish Heads – A Lesson on
Adaptation
- Fish Tank Optics
- Flying Tube
- Flying Wing
- Four-Wing Paper
Boomerang
- Frisbee Physics –
How Does Physics Play a Role in Frisbee Flying?
G
- Galaxy Mapping –
Why Make Maps of the Galaxies?
- Gems – How Do
Gemstones Get Their Color?
- Genetics – You Are Unique
- Geothermal
Power Plant Model - Make your own!
- Glacier Climbing –
What Is a Glacier and How Does One Move?
- Glaucoma
- Glass Blowing –
How Do They Make Glass into Different Shapes?
- Glass Recycling –
Exploring Volume
- Gliders
- Gold Mine – How Is
Gold Found in the Ground?
- Graphing
Stratospheric Ozone
- Greenhouse Effect from
Newton's Apple – How Does the Loss of Ozone Affect Our
Climate?
- The Greenhouse Effect
- Guess What?! – A Lesson
about Atoms
H
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Have You Ever Met a Tree?
- Hearing – Can I Damage
My Hearing by Listening to Loud Music?
- The Hidden Jewels of Geometry
- High Jump – How Do High
Jumpers Set New Records?
- Hip Replacement –
How Do Artificial Implants Work in the Body?
- Hollywood Stunts – A
Lesson in Heat Conduction and Insulation
- Household Chemistry
– Acid or Base?
- How
a Plane Is Controlled – Aerodynamic Principles and
Control Surfaces
- How Caves Are Formed
– An Experiment
- How I Can Control the Soccer
Ball – Applying the Laws of Physics
- How Can Rain Be Acid?
- How CD's Work – An
Imaginary Experiment
- How Do Clocks Keep Time?
– Making a Water Clock
- How Do the Bar-codes at the
Grocery Store Work?
- How Do Magnifying Glasses
Make Things Seem Bigger?
- How Do Sharks Find Their
Prey? – A Lesson in Classification
- How Do We Get the
Impurities Out of Drinking Water? – Making Freshwater
from Seawater
- How Do You Make Paint?
– Pigments, Vehiclers, and Colloids
- How Do You Make Paper?
- How Do You Make Rock
Candy?
- How Does 3-D Work? –
An On-Line Experiment
- How Does a Lever Make You
Stronger?
- How Does the Human Eye
See?
- How Does the Oyster
Make a Pearl? – An Exercise in Observation
- How Does Soap Work?
- How Does Yeast Make Bread
Rise?
- How to Read a
Thermometer
- How TV Works
- Human Slingshot Ride –
How Does the "Ejector Seat" Ride Work?
- Hydropower
- The force of water!
- Hypercoaster
– How Do You Know a Roller Coaster Is Safe?
I
- Ice Energy & Making Ice
Cream
- Ice Surfers – An
Experiment in Tacking into the Wind
- If I Have Acid in My Stomach,
Why Don't I Melt?
- In-Line Skating – Do
In-Line Skates Really Go Faster than Roller Skates?
- Insulation
Which material is best?
- In-Vitro Fertilization
– What Are "Test-tube Babies" and How Are They
Made?
- Inca Engineering
– How Did the Incas Build without Mortar or Wheels?
- Inch of Skin
- Iron in Cereal
J
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Jumbo Jets – How
Do They Get off the Ground?
- Jungle Survival – How
Do People Survive in the Jungle Without Food or Water?
K
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Keeping a Daily Weather Log
L
- Lemon Power
- Let's Catch Some Dirt
from the Air
- Light
by Friction
- Lightning – How Is
Lightning Formed?
- Lightning
- Make your own!
- Liquid Bottle
Rocket
- Liquid Nitrogen Fun!
- Liquid Rainbow
- Living in a Tree
- Locks and Dams –
How Do a Lock and a Dam Make a Waterway Navigable?
- Luge – How Do
Engineering and Technology Play a Role in the Olympics?
- Luna and Io – A
Comparison Study
M
- Make
a Candle Spinner - Motion from heat energy
- Make a Comet Nucleus
- Make a Rheostat
- Make
a Thermometer
- Make a Turbine
- Make Your Own Burglar Alarm
- Making a
Barometer
- Making a
Cloud in a Jar [revised 3 Dec 99]
- Making a
Hair Hygrometer
- Making a Milk Jug Landfill
- Making an
Air Thermometer
- Making Paper Airplane Gliders
- Making a Shoe-Box Guitar
- Making a Sponge Garden
- Making
a Steam-Powered "Rocket Boat"
- Making a Straw Woodwind
- Making a Water Lens
- Making a Water Sampler
- Making a
Weather Vane
- Making an
Anemometer
- Making a
Windsock
- Making a
Wind Vane
- Making
an Anemometer
- Malaria Tracking –
How Can You Locate Disease-Carrying Mosquitoes?
- Mammoth Dig – Why
Are There Mammoth "Burial Grounds"?
- Maple-Seed Helicopters
- Match-Stick Rocket
- Materials That Absorb Solar
Energy
- Maya Bike Trek – How
Can Technology Help You Take a Bike Trip through Central America?
- McEagle Styrofoam Glider
- Measuring Stellar
Temperatures: How Hot Is That Star?
- Medical Quackeries –
Can This Machine Cure Me?
- Meteors – What Are
Meteors and Where Do They Come From?
- Microwave Ovens –
What Is the Science behind Microwave Cooking?
- The "Minimum" Solar Box
Cooker
- Modeling the Nervous System
- Moon Phases
- Mummies – How Are
Mummies Able to "Survive" the Tests of Time?
- Murder Mystery –
How Do Forensic Scientists Help Solve Murders?
- Mushroom Prints
- Musical Tube
N
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NASA Robots – What Are
Robots? How Are They Used in Space?
- Naturally
Occurring Pesticides – 7-12th grade toxicology curriculum
- Newton Car
- Nickel Karate
- Nicotine – Why Is It
So Hard to Quit Smoking?
- Novocain – How Can
the Dentist Drill My Teeth Without Hurting Me?
O
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Ocean in a Bottle
- Oil Spills – How Do
You Clean Up an Oil Spill?
- The Old Windbag
- Olympic Solar
Energy
- Olympic Training Center
– How Can Biomechanics Help an Athlete?
- Omnimax – How Is a
Giant-Screen Movie Made and Projected?
- Ozone – How Do CFC's
Destroy Ozone in the Earth's Atmosphere?
- Ozone Pollution - Smog
Alert
P
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Paper Clip Sailing
- Paper Rockets
- Particulate Matter and
"The Lorax"
- Particulate Matter - How
Dirty Is the Air We Breathe?
- Peanut Power
- Pencil Rockets
- Pet Food – How Do
Scientists Create the Perfect Dining Delights for My Pet?
- Phases of the Moon –
Why Does the Moon Look Different at Different Times of the Month?
- Photosynthesis – How
Do Plants Make Food?
- Ping Pong Ball
Curves
- Pizza Box Solar Oven
- Plants and Oxygen:
Breathing Easy
- Playing with Polymers
- Positively Paper – Making
and Recycling Paper
- Potato Float
- Pretzel Predictions
- Propeller
Experiment 4
- Propeller
Experiment 5
- Proteins – What Are
Proteins and Why Are They Important?
- Prosthetic Limbs
R
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Race for
the Cure – This activity simulates the extraction,
identification, and separation of chemicals in or on plants using
chromatography.
- Rain Forest
Animals
- Rain Forest
Plants
- Rain or Shine: 6 CAPS Lessons to Explore Meteorology and Weather
- Riverboats –
How Does Steam Power Big Machinery?
- Re-creating
the Greenhouse Effect
- Reflexes
- Reflexes – Why Does
a Doctor Check My reflexes When I Have a Check-Up?
- Robots – What Are
Robots and How Do They Differ From Other Machines?
- Rock Climbing – How
Can the Human Body Stick to a Sheer Cliff?
- Rocket Car
- Rocket Pinwheel
S
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Satellite Technology
– What Will Future Satellite Technology Bring?
- Science Safari: Art &
Music
- Science Safari: Energy Resources
- Scuba Diving – What
Does It Take to Scuba Dive?
- Sewer Science –
Where Does Sewage Go?
- A Simple Solar
Water Pasteurizer
- Simulator Rides –
How Are Amusement Park Rides Designed to Create Illusions?
- Singing Rod
- Ski Jumping –
How Do Ski Jumpers Go So Far?
- Sky Blue – Why Is the
Sky Blue?
- Slinky Physics – How
Do Toys Work?
- Soda Pop Can Hero Engine
- A Solar Heat Experiment
- Solar S'Smores
- Solar
Hot Dog Cooker
- Solar-Powered Cars
- Sounds Like Science – Bottle
Organ
- Sounds Like Science – Drums
- Sounds Like Science – Guitars
- Sounds Like Science – Jamboree
- Sounds Like Science – Kazoo
- Splitting
Water - H2O Hydrolysis
- Spotting Sunspots
- Static Charged 2x4s
- Steroids – Do
Athletes Need to Take Synthetic Steroids?
- The Sun Star Solar
Cooker
- Sunken Slave Ship –
How and What Can We Learn From a Shipwreck?
T
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Taking Apart Electrical
Appliances
- Taproot Experiment
- Taste and Smell –
Why Does Food Seem Tasteless When You Have a Cold?
- Taste Buds
- Tears – Why Do We Cry?
- Telecommunications –
New Frontiers in Electronic Communications
- Temperature Inversion
- T.P. Away
- Traffic Control
– How Can Technology Help Alleviate Traffic Jams?
- Trash Disposal Choices
U
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Understanding Groundwater
- Using Bubbles to Learn about Light
Interference
- Using Solar Energy: The Solar Apple
Baker
W
- Water Energy
- Water: Visible and Invisible
- Waterskiing – How Do
Water Skis Stay Up?
- Web Training
- The
Wet Compass Experiment
- Wetlands – What
Are Wetlands and Why Are They So Important?
- What Are the Best Ways to
Dispose of Hazardous Materials?
- What Are Fingernails Made
Out Of?
- What Are Goosebumps?
- What Are Optical
Illusions
- What Does Saving Trees Have to
Do with the Ozone Layer?
- What Is Heat Transfer?
- What Is Infrared Light and
How Does It Work?
- What Is Macaroni Made Of?
- What is Temperature?
- What Is Thunder?
- What is Wind?
- Where Do Dreams Come From?
- What Makes the World Turn
Around?
- Where Does Jell-O Really Come
From?
- Which Way Is Down?
- White Water Rafting
– How Do White-water Rafters Navigate the Rapids?
- Whodunit? – Fingerprints
and Classification
- Why Do Feet Smell?
- Why Do I Hear Weird Sounds at
Night?
- Why Do You Need a Liver?
- Why Does a Car Horn Sound
Different When It Passes By?
- Why Does My Hair Get Curly
When the Humidity Goes Up?
- Why Does My Voice Sound
Different on a Tape recorder?
- Why Does a Steel Nail Sink
While a Steel Boat Floats?
- Why Does the TV Go Crazy when
the Mixer Is On?
- Why Don't Spiders Stick to
Their Own Webs?
- Why Is a Diamond So Hard?
- Wild Lion Vets
- Wilderness Training
– How Do Adventurers Prepare for a Long Wilderness Journey?
- Wind Blow – What
Causes Wind? Where Do Air Masses Come From and Where Do They Go?
- Wooden Helicopter
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