Later Elementary Lessons

Astronomy

• Kids On Mars
• Make a Comet Nucleus
• Moon Phases
• Spotting Sunspots

Biology

• Asthma
• Balloon Safari: How Does the Mara Ecosystem in Africa Work?
• Bee Stings
• Being Alive
• 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
• Cancer Causes: Why Do People Get Cancer?
• Cancer Treatments: Is Cancer Curable?
• Coffee: How Does a Coffee Bean Become a Cup of Java?
• DNA Fingerprinting: Can Blood Found at a Crime Scene Really Identify a Criminal?
• Dolphin Communication
• Do Plants Need Sunlight?
• Egg Fun
• Fingerprinting: A Lesson on Classification
• Fish Heads: A Lesson on Adaptation
• Glaucoma
• Hearing: Can I Damage My Hearing by Listening to Loud Music?
• High Jump: How Do High Jumpers Set New Records?
• Hip Replacement: How Do Artificial Implants Work in the Body?
• How Do Sharks Find Their Prey?: A Lesson in Classification
• How Does the Human Eye See?
• How Does the Oyster Make a Pearl?: An Exercise in Observation
• Jungle Survival: How Do People Survive in the Jungle without Food or Water?
• Making a Sponge Garden
• Making a Water Sampler
• Malaria Tracking: How Can You Locate Disease-Carrying Mosquitoes?
• Mammoth Dig
• Medical Quackeries: Can This Machine Cure Me?
• Murder Mystery: How Do Forensic Scientists Help Solve Murders?
• Mushroom Prints
• Nicotine: Why Is It So Hard to Quit Smoking?
• Novocain
• Olympic Training Center: How Can Biomechanics Help an Athlete?
• Peanut Power
• Pet Food
• Proteins
• Rain Forest Animals
• 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
• Tears: Why Do We Cry?
• What Is an Insect?

Chemistry

• Antacid Tablet Race
• Contaminated Drinking Water
• Creating a Salad Dressing
• Engineering Toothpaste
• Guess What?! (a lesson about atoms)
• Household Chemistry
• How Do We Get the Impurities Out of Drinking Water?: Making Freshwater From Seawater
• Ice Energy & Making Ice Cream
• Lemon Power
• Liquid Nitrogen Fun!
• Novocain
• Peanut Power
• Playing with Polymers
• Positively Paper

Earth Science

• Acid Rain: An Air Pollutant
• Acid Rain: What Causes It?
• Air Pollution
• Antarctica I: Why Do Scientists Go to Antarctica?
• Antarctica II: Why Is Antarctica So Important to Our Planet?
• The Awful 8: The Pollution Play
• Balloon Safari: How Does the Mara Ecosystem in Africa Work?
• Community Problem Solving
• Contaminated Drinking Water
• Cratering In Your Classroom
• Digging the Earth's Crust
• Glacier Climbing
• Glass Recycling
• Gold Mine
• Greenhouse Effect
• How are Caves Formed?
• How Do We Get the Impurities Out of Drinking Water?: Making Freshwater From Seawater
• Lightning
• Make Your Own Lightning
• Making An Anemometer
• Making a Water Sampler
• Materials that Absorb Solar Energy
• The Milk Jug Landfill
• The Minimum Solar Box Cooker
• Ocean in a Bottle
• The Old Windbag
• Olympic Solar Energy
• Ozone Pollution: Smog Alert
• Particulate Matter: How Dirty Is the Air We Breathe?
• Phases of the Moon
• Pizza Box Solar Oven
• Rain Forest Plants
• Rain or Shine: Explorations in Meteorology and Weather
• Re-creating the Greenhouse Effect
• Science Safari: Energy Resources
• A Simple Solar Water Pasteurizer
• Sky Blue: Why Is the Sky Blue?
• A Solar Heat Experiment
• Solar Hot Dog Cooker
• Solar S'Mores
• The Sun Star Solar Cooker
• Sunken Slave Ship
• Temperature Inversion
• Trash Disposal Choices
• Understanding Groundwater
• Using Solar Energy: The Solar Baker
• Water Energy
• Wetlands: What Are They and Why Are They So Important?
• What Is Wind
• White Water Rafting
• Wilderness Training
• Wind Blow

Physical Science

• Air Pressure
• Altitude Tracking
• Antacid Tablet Race
• Balloon Staging: Rocket Staging
• Balloons: Why Are They Stretchy?
• Battery Life
• Bicycles: How Do a Bike and Its Rider Stay Up?
• Car Engines
• Colored Shadows: Using Lights to Mix Colors
• Domed Stadiums: What Keeps Inflated Stadiums Up?
• Engineering Toothpaste
• Finger Boomerangs
• Fish Tank Optics
• Flying Tube
• Flying Wing
• Four-Wing Paper Boomerang
• Glass Blowing
• Gliders
• Guess What?! (a lesson about atoms)
• The Hidden Jewels of Geometry
• Hollywood Stunts
• How Can I Control the Soccer Ball?
• How Do Clocks Keep Time?
• Ice Energy & Making Ice Cream
• In-Line Skating: Do In-Line Skates Really Go Faster than Roller Skates?
• Lemon Power
• Liquid Bottle Rocket
• Liquid Nitrogen Fun!
• Making Paper Airplane Gliders
• Making a Steam-Powered Rocket Boat
• Making a Straw Woodwind
• Making a Water Lens
• Maple-Seed Helicopters
• Match-Stick Rocket
• Materials That Absorb Solar Energy
• McEagle Styrofoam Glider
• Musical Tube
• NASA Robots
• Newton Car
• Paper Clip Sailing
• Paper Rockets
• Peanut Power
• Pencil Rockets
• Ping Pong Ball Curves
• Pizza Box Solar Oven
• Playing With Polymers
• Positively Paper
• Robots
• Rocket Car
• Rocket Pinwheel
• Science Safari: Energy Resources
• Scuba Diving
• Sewer Science: Where Does Sewage Go?
• Soda Pop Can Hero Engine
• A Solar Heat Experiment
• Sounds Like Science: Bottle Organ
• Sounds Like Science: Drums
• Sounds Like Science: Guitars
• Sounds Like Science: Jamboree
• Sounds Like Science: Kazoos
• Splitting Water: H₂O Hydrolysis
• Using Bubbles to Learn About Light Interference
• Water Energy
• Where's the Air?
• Wooden Helicopter

Technology

• Archery: How Has Technology Changed the Bow and Arrow Over the Centuries?
• Battery Life
• Car Engines
• Domed Stadiums: What Keeps Inflated Stadiums Up?
• How Do Clocks Keep Time?
• How TV Works
• In-Line Skating - Do In-Line Skates Really Go Faster than Roller Skates?
• Make Your Own Burglar Alarm
• Making An Anemometer
• Making Paper Airplane Gliders
• Making a Steam-Powered Rocket Boat
• Medical Quackeries - Can This Machine Cure Me?
• The Minimum Solar Box Cooker
• NASA Robots
• Pizza Box Solar Oven
• Robots
• Science Safari: Art & Music
• A Simple Solar Water Pasteurizer
• Solar Hot Dog Cooker
• Solar S'Mores
• Splitting Water: H₂O Hydrolysis
• The Sun Star Solar Cooker
• Taking Apart Electrical Equipment
• Web Training: Learning to Use the Internet