Early Elementary Lessons

Astronomy

• Kids On Mars

Biology

• Animal or Plant?
• Bee Stings
• Being Alive
• Do Plants Need Sunlight?
• Egg Fun
• Fish Heads: A lesson on adaptation
• Genetics: You Are Unique
• Have You Ever Met a Tree?
• High Jump: How Do High Jumpers Set New Records?
• If I Have Acid in My Stomach, Why Don't I Melt?
• Living in a Tree
• Lost World Dinosaurs
• Making a Sponge Garden
• Mushroom Prints
• Reflexes
• Reflexes: Why Does a Doctor Check My Reflexes When I Have a Check-Up?
• Taproot Experiment
• Taste and Smell: Why Does Food Seem Tasteless When You Have a Cold?
• Taste Buds
• What Are Fingernails Made Of?
• What Are Goosebumps?
• What Is an Insect?
• Why Do Feet Smell?
• Why Does My Voice Sound Different on a Tape Recorder?
• Why Don't Spiders Stick to Their Own Webs?
• Zoo Vets - How Is a Zoo Veterinarian Different from My Puppy's Vet?"

Chemistry

• Contaminated Drinking Water
• Engineering Toothpaste
• How Do You Make Paint?
• How Do You Make Rock Candy?
• How Does Soap Work?
• How Does Yeast Make Bread Rise?
• Ice Energy & Making Ice Cream
• If I Have Acid in My Stomach, Why Don't I Melt?
• Positively Paper
• What Is Macaroni Made Of?
• Why Is a Diamond So Hard?

Earth Science

• Acid Rain: What Causes It?
• Acid Rain: The Disappearing Statue
• Air: You Can't See It, But It's There!
• Air Quality and Transportation
• Breathing Easy
• Contaminated Drinking Water
• Glacier Climbing
• Kids on Mars
• Let's Catch Some Dirt from the Air
• Materials that Absorb Solar Energy
• The Milk Jug Landfill
• Make Your Own Lightning
• Making a Sponge Garden
• Ocean in a Bottle
• Particulate Matter and "The Lorax"
• Pizza Box Solar Oven
• Plants and Oxygen: Breathing Easy
• Re-creating the Greenhouse Effect
• Sky Blue: Why Is the Sky Blue?
• A Solar Heat Experiment
• Solar S'Mores
• Trash Disposal Choices
• Understanding Groundwater
• Water Energy
• Water: Visible and Invisible
• What Is Thunder?
• Which Way Is Down?
• Why Is a Diamond So Hard?

Physical Science

• Battery Life
• Engineering Toothpaste
• Fish Tank Optics
• Gliders
• The Hidden Jewels of Geometry
• How Do Magnifying Glasses Make Things Seem Bigger?
• How Do You Make Paper?
• How Does a Lever Make You Stronger?
• How Does Soap Work?
• Ice Energy & Making Ice Cream
• Making a Shoe-Box Guitar
• Making a Water Lens
• Maple-Seed Helicopters
• Materials That Absorb Solar Energy
• NASA Robots
• Paper Clip Sailing
• Paper Rockets
• Pizza Box Solar Oven
• Positively Paper
• Rocket Pinwheel
• A Solar Heat Experiment
• Sounds Like Science: Bottle Organ
• Sounds Like Science: Drums
• Sounds Like Science: Guitars
• Sounds Like Science: Jamboree
• Sounds Like Science: Kazoo
• Water Energy
• What Is Macaroni Made Of?
• What Is Thunder?
• Where’s the Air?
• Which Way Is Down?
• Why Do I Hear Weird Sounds at Night?
• Why Does My Voice Sound Different on a Tape Recorder?
• Why Does a Steel Nail Sink While a Steel Boat Floats?

Technology

• Battery Life
• NASA Robots
• Solar S'Mores
• Web Training: Learning to Use the Internet
• What Is All This Ozone Stuff?
• Why Does My Voice Sound Different on a Tape Recorder?
• Why Does the TV Go Crazy When the Mixer Is On?