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A
Acid Rain: An Air Pollutant
Acid Rain: "It's Eating Away at You"
Acid Rain: The Disappearing Statue
Adrenoleukodystropy (ALD): A Case Study Using the Film "Lorenzo's Oil"
Airfoil Experiment 2
Airfoil Experiment 3
Air Pollution Control
Air Power for Transportation
Air Pressure
Air ... What Gives?
Alka Rockets
Alternative Energy Sources
Analysis of Ink by Paper Chromatography
Anatomy and Physiology "Quickies"
Animal Adaptations
Antacid Tablet Race
Are All Liquids the Same?
Are You Being Poisoned by Your Dishes?
Attracting Balloons
B
A Bagful of Surprises
Baggie Science
Balloon Blow-Up
Big Bottle Barometer
Biological Rhythms
Biomes in a Box
Black Magic
Blood Circulation Lab
Blubber Glove
Bottle Habitat
Bouncing Eggs
Brain Injury Eggs-periment
Brown Bag Science
Bubble Bomb
Bubble Fun
Bubble-ology
Bubble-ology & Bernoulli
Bubbularium
Buggy Diner
C
Cake Batter Lava
Calls of the Wild
CANdemonium
Can I Make a Maraca?
Can I Make a Rain Cloud?
Can I Make Raisins?
Carrot Root Fun
Chemical Changes
Chemical Methods of Control
Chemistry in Black & White Photography
Circulation of Water in Celery
Color Mixing
Color My World - Frosting Graham Crackers
Colorful Bouquet
Cookie Topography
Copper Caper
Counting the Stars
Cricket Dissection
Crystal Creations
Crystals
D
Demonstrating an Epidemic
Demonstration of Cheese-Making Enzyme Magic
Density
Density: An AskERIC Lesson
Describing Soils
Determination of the Amount of Phosphate in a Detergent
Determining Acids and Bases
Diffusion of Molecules
Diggin' Dirt
Direct & Diffuse Light
DNA Extraction
DNA Extraction Lab
DNA Sequencing Simulation
Donut Sort
Down the Drain
Downhill Discoveries
E
Ear Guitar
Earth: The Apple of Our Eye
Edible Plants
Edible Rocks
The Effect of Citrus Oils on Fruit Flies
Egg Carton Glider
Egg Magic
Eggs Don't Break?
Egg Protector
Elevator Physics
Enzymatic Reaction
Enzyme Grabbers
Enzyme Labs Using Jello
Enzymes
An Enzyme Substrate Model
Erosion
Erosion
Establishing Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium
Evaporation
Exothermic Reactions Used in Hot Packs
Extraction of DNA from Onion
F
Finger Boomerangs
Fishy Frequencies
Flipsticks
Flying Tube
Flying Wing
Folds and Faults
Following the Mealworm's Metamorphosis
Friction
Friction: Roll With The Changes
Fun With Air
G
Gelatin Volcanoes
The Genetics of Parenthood
Germinating Seeds with Liquid Crystals
The Giant Cell
Glaucoma
Gliders
Glitter Globe
- learning about density
Good Vibrations
Grasshopper Study
Grass Seed Fun
Green Space in the City
Groundwater Quality
Growing Alfalfa Sprouts
H
Hand Washing
Healthy Heart
Hearing Fun
Heartbeat
The Heart and the Circulatory System
Hovering Card Trick
- the Bernoulli Principle
How are plastics made?
How Can You Make a Flashlight Shine Brighter?
How Do Animals Protect Themselves?
How Does Chance Influence Inheritance?
How Do I Make a Fossil Print?
How to Make Bottle Pipes
How Much Do You Weigh?
How to Tell When Mealworms Are Out of Breath
How We See
I
Identification of an Unknown Substance
Impact Craters
Introduction to DNA Extractions
It Floats
J
Junk Mail Airmail
K
Kids on Mars
L
A Lab Trilogy for Beginning Biology Teachers
Lava Layering
Laws of Reflection
Leaf Stomata as Bio-indicators of Environmental Change
Lemon Battery
Let the Light Shine In: The Iris
How can you lift four times your weight?
Liquid Bottle Rocket
Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream
Listen Up!
Lost World Dinosaurs
Lotic Environment Lesson Plans
M
Magnet Fun
Magnets
Magnificent Microscopes
Make a Spectroscope
Make Your Own Bubbles
Make Your Own Paper
Make Your Own Private Lightning
Make Your Own Rain Gauge
Making an Ant House
Making a Bird Mural
Making a Dry Flower Bouquet
Making a Flying Saucer
Making No-Bake Peanut Butter Cookies
Making a Pinhole Camera
Making a Pondscope
Making a Spectroscope
Making a Spider Web
Making a Straw Woodwind
Making Three-Dimensional Plant & Animal Cell Models
Making a Wind Sock
Manufacture a CD Crate
Mapping Animal Behavior
Marshmallow Building and Bridges
Match-Stick Rocket
McEagle Styrofoam Glider
Measuring Calories
Metamorphic Rock Pancakes
Mixtures & Sugar Cubes
M & M Lab
A Model of a Bacterial Plasmid
Mold I: Growing Your Own
Mold II: Mold Terrarium
The Money Pile
Motoring Electromagnetically
Mousetrap Vehicle
Movement
Musical Coathanger
N
Needle Through a Balloon
Neutralizing Ability of Antacid Tablets
Non-Compressibility of Water
The Nose Knows
O
Observation: Where Is My Peanut?
One Color or Two?
One + One = One
Onion DNA Extraction
The Opposable Thumb
Optical Images
Orbital Forces
Outrageous Ooze
P
Picky Toothpicks
- surface tension
Pictures from Light
Piles of Fire
How can you force a physical change in matter?
Plant Biotechnology: Controlling Tissue Differentiation
Plants and Gravity
Plants and Seeds
Plant Transpiration
How are plastics made?
Pliable Proteins
Pollen Collection and Identification
Polystyrene Containers
Population Dynamics of Growth of Drosophila
Porosity
Potential & Kinetic Energy
Pringles Pinhole Camera
Problem Solving in Genetic Disorders
Properties and Synthesis of Soap
R
Random Walk
Rate of Gas Evolution from the Reaction of Alka-Seltzer Tablets with Water
Reaction Time
Reaping Rocks
Recycling Paper
Reflecting Rainbows
Regolith Formation
Remote Control Roller
Restriction Enzymes
Rocket Science: Balloon Races
Rocket Science: Rocket Poppers
Rocket to Success
Roller Coasters in the Classroom
Roto-Copter
Rubber Eggs
S
Salt Volcano
Sampling Carbon Dioxide
SA/V Ratio & Rate of Diffusion
Secret Bells
Seeing Air
Sensational Slime
Silly Straw Glider
Simple Machines
Simple Machines
Simulation of Gene Splicing
Slinky Science
Slippery Substances - Lubricants
Soap-Powered Paper Boats
Soda Pop Can Hero Engine
Solar Hot Box
Solar Hot Dog Cooker
Spider Fun
Spin, Eggs, Spin!
Spinning Blimps
Sponges and Seeds
Spudnicks - A Rice-Crispy & Marshmallow Snack!
Spud Stuff
Stalactites and Stalagmites to Go
St. Patrick's Day Snack
Stream Table
String It Along
Structure of Matter
Student Investigation on the Immune System and Heme-agglutination
Super Sparker
Suspension Bridge
Synthesis of Aspirin
Synthesis of Soap
T
Tasty Solution
Teaching Multiple Alleles
Testing for Acid
The Touch 'n' Feel Box
Transpiration
Tree Bark Casts
U
Understanding Waves
Up Periscope
Using Microscopes
Using A Winogradsky Column to Analyze Microbial Communities
V
Viscosity
Visible Spectra of Soda Pops
Vitamin C in Fruit Juices
W
Waste Management
Watch the Brain Learn
Water Bottle Rocket Launcher
Water Color Racing
Water Drop Magnifier
Water Magic
Water Pollution
Watershed Modeling
Weathering Experiments: Sugar Cubes, Steel Wool & Gravel
What Are Seeds?
What Causes Tooth Decay
What Do Plants Need to Live?
What Is Air?
What Is a Medicine?
What Is Mud?
What Is Water?
What Makes a Bird a Bird?
What Plants Do I Like to Eat?
What's Evaporation?
What Shape Is Water?
What's It Like to Molt Like a Snake?
Whose Skeleton Is in Your Closet?
Why Can Insects Stand on Water?
Wild Seed Fun
Wind Detective
Wind Erosion
Windows on Life
Wind Gauge
- Build your own!
Wind Sounds
Worm Bin Project
Y
Yeast - A Dihybrid Cross
Your Own Electroboard
Z
Zoo Vet
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