Alphabetical List of Lessons

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1. Acid Rain: An Air Pollutant
2. Acid Rain: The Disappearing Statue
3. AIDS – What Is Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome?
4. Air Bags and Collisions – How Do Airbags Prevent Automobile Injuries?
5. Airfoil Experiment 1
6. Air: You Can’t See It, But It’s There!
7. Air Pollution Control
8. Air Power for Transportation
9. Air Pressure – A Demonstration
10. Air Pressure–What Is Air Pressure and How Can It Be Measured?
11. Air Quality and Transportation
12. Aircraft Fire Rescue – How Does a Firefighter Put Out an Airplane Fire?
13. Altitude Tracking – An Application of Geometry
14. Animal or Plant?
15. Antacid Tablet Race
16. Antarctica I – Why Do Scientists Go to Antarctica?
17. Antarctica II – Why Is Antarctica So Important to Our Planet?
18. Archery – How Has Technology Changed the Bow and Arrow over the Centuries?
19. Asthma – What Makes It Hard For People With Asthma To Breathe?
20. Aurora Borealis – What Creates These Shimmering Celestial Lights?
21. Avalanche Rescue – How Do Dogs Find People Buried in an Avalanche?
22. The Awful 8: The Pollution Play
    
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23. Balloon Safari – How Does the Mara Ecosystem in Africa Work?
24. Balloon Staging – Rocket Staging
25. Balloons – Why Are They Stretchy?
26. Battery Life
27. Bee Stings – Communication by Smell
28. Being Alive
29. Bicycles – How Do a Bike and Its Rider Stay Up?
30. Biological Rhythms
31. Blood Typing – What Makes Different Blood Types Different?
32. Body Fat – Is All Fat Bad?
33. Bone Marrow – What Is a Bone Marrow Transplant and How Does It Work?
34. Bones – How Do Bones Get So Strong?
35. Bottle Habitat
36. Brain Injury – An Eggs-periment with Helmets
37. Breathing Easy – Why We Need Plants in Order to Breathe
38. Broken Bones – Experience Splinting
    
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39. Cancer Causes – Why Do People Get Cancer?
40. Cancer treatments – Is Cancer Curable?
41. Car Engines – How Do Car Engines Work?
42. Circles of Light – The Mathematics of Rainbows
43. Circus High Wire – How Do Tightrope Walkers Keep Their Balance?
44. The City from the Ooze
45. Cockroaches – Designing a Trap
46. Coffee – How Does a Coffee Bean Become a Cup of Java?
47. Colored Shadows – Using Lights to Mix Colors
48. Community Problem Solving
49. Contaminated Drinking Water
50. Convection – How Does It Happen in Our Atmosphere?
51. Cooling via Shade
52. Cratering in Your Classroom
53. Creating a Salad Dressing – Applying the Scientific Method
54. Cryogenics – Science Fact or Science Fiction?
    
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55. Demonstrating Dew and Frost
56. Diabetes – What Is Type 1 Diabetes?
57. Diet and Nutrition – How Does Fast Food Stack Up?
58. Digging the Earth's Crust
59. Dinosaur I – Finding and Dating
60. Dinosaur II – Assembling a Dinosaur
61. Does the Sun Influence the Temperature of the Earth?
62. Domed Stadiums – What Keeps Inflated Stadiums Up?
63. Do Plants Need Sunlight?
64. DNA Fingerprinting – Can Blood Found at a Crime Scene Really Identify a Criminal?
65. Dolphin Communication – Exploring Nonverbal Communication
66. The Dry Compass Experiment
    
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67. Egg Fun – Exploring Like a Scientist
68. Electric Cars – Exploring Electrical Circuits
69. Electricity: Open and Short Circuits
70. Electromagnet - Make your own!
71. Engineering Toothpaste – Everyday Chemistry
72. Ergonomics – What Is Ergonomics and Why Is It Important?
73. Ethanol – How Does It Make a Car Run?
74. Equator – What Is Life Like for Animals, Plants and People at the African Equator?
    
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75. Finger Boomerangs
76. Fingerprinting – A Lesson on Classification
77. Fish Heads – A Lesson on Adaptation
78. Fish Tank Optics
79. Flying Tube
80. Flying Wing
81. Four-Wing Paper Boomerang
82. Frisbee Physics – How Does Physics Play a Role in Frisbee Flying?
    
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83. Galaxy Mapping – Why Make Maps of the Galaxies?
84. Gems – How Do Gemstones Get Their Color?
85. Genetics – You Are Unique
86. Geothermal Power Plant Model - Make your own!
87. Glacier Climbing – What Is a Glacier and How Does One Move?
88. Glaucoma
89. Glass Blowing – How Do They Make Glass into Different Shapes?
90. Glass Recycling – Exploring Volume
91. Gliders
92. Gold Mine – How Is Gold Found in the Ground?
93. Graphing Stratospheric Ozone
94. Greenhouse Effect from Newton's Apple – How Does the Loss of Ozone Affect Our Climate?
95. The Greenhouse Effect
96. Guess What?! – A Lesson about Atoms
    
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97. Have You Ever Met a Tree?
98. Hearing – Can I Damage My Hearing by Listening to Loud Music?
99. The Hidden Jewels of Geometry
100. High Jump – How Do High Jumpers Set New Records?
101. Hip Replacement – How Do Artificial Implants Work in the Body?
102. Hollywood Stunts – A Lesson in Heat Conduction and Insulation
103. Household Chemistry – Acid or Base?
104. How a Plane Is Controlled – Aerodynamic Principles and Control Surfaces
105. How Caves Are Formed – An Experiment
106. How I Can Control the Soccer Ball – Applying the Laws of Physics
107. How Do Clocks Keep Time? – Making a Water Clock
108. How Do Sharks Find Their Prey? – A Lesson in Classification
109. How Do We Get the Impurities Out of Drinking Water? – Making Freshwater from Seawater
110. How Does the Human Eye See?
111. How Does the Oyster Make a Pearl? – An Exercise in Observation
112. How to Read a Thermometer
113. How TV Works
114. Human Slingshot Ride – How Does the "Ejector Seat" Ride Work?
115. Hydropower - The force of water!
116. Hypercoaster – How Do You Know a Roller Coaster Is Safe?
     
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117. Ice Energy & Making Ice Cream
118. Ice Surfers – An Experiment in Tacking into the Wind
119. In-Line Skating – Do In-Line Skates Really Go Faster than Roller Skates?
120. Insulation Which material is best?
121. In-Vitro Fertilization – What Are "Test-tube Babies" and How Are They Made?
122. Inca Engineering – How Did the Incas Build without Mortar or Wheels?
     
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123. Jumbo Jets – How Do They Get off the Ground?
124. Jungle Survival – How Do People Survive in the Jungle Without Food or Water?
     
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125. Keeping a Daily Weather Log
     
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126. Lemon Power
127. Let's Catch Some Dirt from the Air
128. Light by Friction
129. Lightning – How Is Lightning Formed?
130. Lightning - Make your own!
131. Liquid Bottle Rocket
132. Liquid Nitrogen Fun!
133. Living in a Tree
134. Luge – How Do Engineering and Technology Play a Role in the Olympics?
     
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135. Make a Candle Spinner - Motion from heat energy
136. Make a Rheostat
137. Make a Thermometer
138. Make a Turbine
139. Make Your Own Burglar Alarm
140. Making a Barometer
141. Making a Cloud in a Jar
142. Making a Hair Hygrometer
143. Making an Air Thermometer
144. Making Paper Airplane Gliders
145. Making a Shoe-Box Guitar
146. Making a Steam-Powered "Rocket Boat"
147. Making a Straw Woodwind
148. Making a Water Lens
149. Making a Water Sampler
150. Making a Weather Vane
151. Making an Anemometer
152. Making a Windsock
153. Making a Wind Vane
154. Making an Anemometer
155. Malaria Tracking – How Can You Locate Disease-Carrying Mosquitoes?
156. Mammoth Dig – Why Are There Mammoth "Burial Grounds"?
157. Maple-Seed Helicopters
158. Match-Stick Rocket
159. Maya Bike Trek – How Can Technology Help You Take a Bike Trip through Central America?
160. McEagle Styrofoam Glider
161. Medical Quackeries – Can This Machine Cure Me?
162. Meteors – What Are Meteors and Where Do They Come From?
163. Microwave Ovens – What Is the Science behind Microwave Cooking?
164. Modeling the Nervous System
165. Mummies – How Are Mummies Able to "Survive" the Tests of Time?
166. Murder Mystery – How Do Forensic Scientists Help Solve Murders?
167. Mushroom Prints
168. Musical Tube
     
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169. NASA Robots – What Are Robots? How Are They Used in Space?
170. Newton Car
171. Nicotine – Why Is It So Hard to Quit Smoking?
172. Novocain – How Can the Dentist Drill My Teeth Without Hurting Me?
     
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173. Ocean in a Bottle
174. Oil Spills – How Do You Clean Up an Oil Spill?
175. The Old Windbag
176. Olympic Solar Energy
177. Olympic Training Center – How Can Biomechanics Help an Athlete?
178. Omnimax – How Is a Giant-Screen Movie Made and Projected?
179. Ozone – How Do CFC's Destroy Ozone in the Earth's Atmosphere?
180. Ozone Pollution - Smog Alert
     
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181. Paper Clip Sailing
182. Paper Rockets
183. Particulate Matter and "The Lorax"
184. Particulate Matter - How Dirty Is the Air We Breathe?
185. Peanut Power
186. Pencil Rockets
187. Pet Food – How Do Scientists Create the Perfect Dining Delights for My Pet?
188. Phases of the Moon – Why Does the Moon Look Different at Different Times of the Month?
189. Photosynthesis – How Do Plants Make Food?
190. Ping Pong Ball Curves
191. Pizza Box Solar Oven
192. Plants and Oxygen: Breathing Easy
193. Playing with Polymers
194. Positively Paper – Making and Recycling Paper
195. Propeller Experiment 4
196. Propeller Experiment 5
197. Proteins – What Are Proteins and Why Are They Important?
198. Prosthetic Limbs
     
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199. Rain Forest Animals
200. Rain Forest Plants
201. Rain or Shine: 6 CAPS Lessons to Explore Meteorology and Weather
     • Does the Sun Influence the Temperature of the Earth?
     • How Does Convection Happen in Our Atmosphere?
     • How to Read a Thermometer
     • Keeping a Daily Weather Log
     • What Is Heat Transfer?
     • What is Temperature
202. Riverboats – How Does Steam Power Big Machinery?
203. Re-creating the Greenhouse Effect
204. Reflexes
205. Reflexes – Why Does a Doctor Check My reflexes When I Have a Check-Up?
206. Robots – What Are Robots and How Do They Differ From Other Machines?
207. Rock Climbing – How Can the Human Body Stick to a Sheer Cliff?
208. Rocket Car
209. Rocket Pinwheel
     
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210. Satellite Technology – What Will Future Satellite Technology Bring?
211. Science Safari: Energy Resources
212. Scuba Diving – What Does It Take to Scuba Dive?
213. Sewer Science – Where Does Sewage Go?
214. Simulator Rides – How Are Amusement Park Rides Designed to Create Illusions?
215. Ski Jumping – How Do Ski Jumpers Go So Far?
216. Sky Blue – Why Is the Sky Blue?
217. Slinky Physics – How Do Toys Work?
218. Soda Pop Can Hero Engine
219. Solar S’mores
220. Solar Hot Dog Cooker
221. Solar-Powered Cars
222. Sounds Like Science – Bottle Organ
223. Sounds Like Science – Drums
224. Sounds Like Science – Guitars
225. Sounds Like Science – Jamboree
226. Sounds Like Science – Kazoo
227. Splitting Water - H₂O Hydrolysis
228. Steroids – Do Athletes Need to Take Synthetic Steroids?
229. Sunken Slave Ship – How and What Can We Learn From a Shipwreck?
     
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230. Taking Apart Electrical Appliances
231. Taste and Smell – Why Does Food Seem Tasteless When You Have a Cold?
232. Taste Buds
233. Tears – Why Do We Cry?
234. Telecommunications – New Frontiers in Electronic Communications
235. Temperature Inversion
236. Traffic Control – How Can Technology Help Alleviate Traffic Jams?
237. Trash Disposal Choices
238. Tsunami
     
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239. Using Bubbles to Learn about Light Interference
     
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240. Water Energy
241. Waterskiing – How Do Water Skis Stay Up?
242. The Wet Compass Experiment
243. Wetlands – What Are Wetlands and Why Are They So Important?
244. What Is Heat Transfer?
245. What Is Infrared Light and How Does It Work?
246. What is Temperature?
247. What is Wind?
248. White Water Rafting – How Do White-water Rafters Navigate the Rapids?
249. Whodunit? – Fingerprints and Classification
250. Why Do You Need a Liver?
251. Wild Lion Vets
252. Wilderness Training – How Do Adventurers Prepare for a Long Wilderness Journey?
253. Wind Blow – What Causes Wind? Where Do Air Masses Come From and Where Do They Go?
254. Wooden Helicopter