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  1. Acid Rain: An Air Pollutant
  2. Acid Rain: "It's Eating Away at You"
  3. Acid Rain: The Disappearing Statue
  4. Adrenoleukodystropy (ALD): A Case Study Using the Film "Lorenzo's Oil"
  5. Airfoil Experiment 2
  6. Airfoil Experiment 3
  7. Air Pollution Control
  8. Air Power for Transportation
  9. Air Pressure
  10. Air ... What Gives?
  11. Alka Rockets
  12. Alternative Energy Sources
  13. Analysis of Ink by Paper Chromatography
  14. Anatomy and Physiology "Quickies"
  15. Animal Adaptations
  16. Antacid Tablet Race
  17. Are All Liquids the Same?
  18. Are You Being Poisoned by Your Dishes?
  19. Attracting Balloons

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  20. A Bagful of Surprises
  21. Baggie Science
  22. Balloon Blow-Up
  23. Big Bottle Barometer
  24. Biological Rhythms
  25. Biomes in a Box
  26. Black Magic
  27. Blood Circulation Lab
  28. Blubber Glove
  29. Bottle Habitat
  30. Bouncing Eggs
  31. Brain Injury Eggs-periment
  32. Brown Bag Science
  33. Bubble Bomb
  34. Bubble Fun
  35. Bubble-ology
  36. Bubble-ology & Bernoulli
  37. Bubbularium
  38. Buggy Diner

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  39. Cake Batter Lava
  40. Calls of the Wild
  41. CANdemonium
  42. Can I Make a Maraca?
  43. Can I Make a Rain Cloud?
  44. Can I Make Raisins?
  45. Carrot Root Fun
  46. Chemical Changes
  47. Chemical Methods of Control
  48. Chemistry in Black & White Photography
  49. Circulation of Water in Celery
  50. Color Mixing
  51. Color My World - Frosting Graham Crackers
  52. Colorful Bouquet
  53. Cookie Topography
  54. Copper Caper
  55. Counting the Stars
  56. Cricket Dissection
  57. Crystal Creations
  58. Crystals

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  59. Demonstrating an Epidemic
  60. Demonstration of Cheese-Making Enzyme Magic
  61. Density
  62. Density: An AskERIC Lesson
  63. Describing Soils
  64. Determination of the Amount of Phosphate in a Detergent
  65. Determining Acids and Bases
  66. Diffusion of Molecules
  67. Diggin' Dirt
  68. Direct & Diffuse Light
  69. DNA Extraction
  70. DNA Extraction Lab
  71. DNA Sequencing Simulation
  72. Donut Sort
  73. Down the Drain
  74. Downhill Discoveries

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  75. Ear Guitar
  76. Earth: The Apple of Our Eye
  77. Edible Plants
  78. Edible Rocks
  79. The Effect of Citrus Oils on Fruit Flies
  80. Egg Carton Glider
  81. Egg Magic
  82. Eggs Don't Break?
  83. Egg Protector
  84. Elevator Physics
  85. Enzymatic Reaction
  86. Enzyme Grabbers
  87. Enzyme Labs Using Jello
  88. Enzymes
  89. An Enzyme Substrate Model
  90. Erosion
  91. Erosion
  92. Establishing Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium
  93. Evaporation
  94. Exothermic Reactions Used in Hot Packs
  95. Extraction of DNA from Onion

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  96. Finger Boomerangs
  97. Fishy Frequencies
  98. Flipsticks
  99. Flying Tube
  100. Flying Wing
  101. Folds and Faults
  102. Following the Mealworm's Metamorphosis
  103. Friction
  104. Friction: Roll With The Changes
  105. Fun With Air

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  106. Gelatin Volcanoes
  107. The Genetics of Parenthood
  108. Germinating Seeds with Liquid Crystals
  109. The Giant Cell
  110. Glaucoma
  111. Gliders
  112. Glitter Globe - learning about density
  113. Good Vibrations
  114. Grasshopper Study
  115. Grass Seed Fun
  116. Green Space in the City
  117. Groundwater Quality
  118. Growing Alfalfa Sprouts

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  119. Hand Washing
  120. Healthy Heart
  121. Hearing Fun
  122. Heartbeat
  123. The Heart and the Circulatory System
  124. Hovering Card Trick - the Bernoulli Principle
  125. How are plastics made?
  126. How Can You Make a Flashlight Shine Brighter?
  127. How Do Animals Protect Themselves?
  128. How Does Chance Influence Inheritance?
  129. How Do I Make a Fossil Print?
  130. How to Make Bottle Pipes
  131. How Much Do You Weigh?
  132. How to Tell When Mealworms Are Out of Breath
  133. How We See

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  134. Identification of an Unknown Substance
  135. Impact Craters
  136. Introduction to DNA Extractions
  137. It Floats

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  138. Junk Mail Airmail

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  139. Kids on Mars

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  140. A Lab Trilogy for Beginning Biology Teachers
  141. Lava Layering
  142. Laws of Reflection
  143. Leaf Stomata as Bio-indicators of Environmental Change
  144. Lemon Battery
  145. Let the Light Shine In: The Iris
  146. How can you lift four times your weight?
  147. Liquid Bottle Rocket
  148. Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream
  149. Listen Up!
  150. Lost World Dinosaurs
  151. Lotic Environment Lesson Plans

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  152. Magnet Fun
  153. Magnets
  154. Magnificent Microscopes
  155. Make a Spectroscope
  156. Make Your Own Bubbles
  157. Make Your Own Paper
  158. Make Your Own Private Lightning
  159. Make Your Own Rain Gauge
  160. Making an Ant House
  161. Making a Bird Mural
  162. Making a Dry Flower Bouquet
  163. Making a Flying Saucer
  164. Making No-Bake Peanut Butter Cookies
  165. Making a Pinhole Camera
  166. Making a Pondscope
  167. Making a Spectroscope
  168. Making a Spider Web
  169. Making a Straw Woodwind
  170. Making Three-Dimensional Plant & Animal Cell Models
  171. Making a Wind Sock
  172. Manufacture a CD Crate
  173. Mapping Animal Behavior
  174. Marshmallow Building and Bridges
  175. Match-Stick Rocket
  176. McEagle Styrofoam Glider
  177. Measuring Calories
  178. Metamorphic Rock Pancakes
  179. Mixtures & Sugar Cubes
  180. M & M Lab
  181. A Model of a Bacterial Plasmid
  182. Mold I: Growing Your Own
  183. Mold II: Mold Terrarium
  184. The Money Pile
  185. Motoring Electromagnetically
  186. Mousetrap Vehicle
  187. Movement
  188. Musical Coathanger

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  189. Needle Through a Balloon
  190. Neutralizing Ability of Antacid Tablets
  191. Non-Compressibility of Water
  192. The Nose Knows

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  193. Observation: Where Is My Peanut?
  194. One Color or Two?
  195. One + One = One
  196. Onion DNA Extraction
  197. The Opposable Thumb
  198. Optical Images
  199. Orbital Forces
  200. Outrageous Ooze

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  201. Picky Toothpicks - surface tension
  202. Pictures from Light
  203. Piles of Fire
  204. How can you force a physical change in matter?
  205. Plant Biotechnology: Controlling Tissue Differentiation
  206. Plants and Gravity
  207. Plants and Seeds
  208. Plant Transpiration
  209. How are plastics made?
  210. Pliable Proteins
  211. Pollen Collection and Identification
  212. Polystyrene Containers
  213. Population Dynamics of Growth of Drosophila
  214. Porosity
  215. Potential & Kinetic Energy
  216. Pringles Pinhole Camera
  217. Problem Solving in Genetic Disorders
  218. Properties and Synthesis of Soap

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  219. Random Walk
  220. Rate of Gas Evolution from the Reaction of Alka-Seltzer Tablets with Water
  221. Reaction Time
  222. Reaping Rocks
  223. Recycling Paper
  224. Reflecting Rainbows
  225. Regolith Formation
  226. Remote Control Roller
  227. Restriction Enzymes
  228. Rocket Science: Balloon Races
  229. Rocket Science: Rocket Poppers
  230. Rocket to Success
  231. Roller Coasters in the Classroom
  232. Roto-Copter
  233. Rubber Eggs

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  234. Salt Volcano
  235. Sampling Carbon Dioxide
  236. SA/V Ratio & Rate of Diffusion
  237. Secret Bells
  238. Seeing Air
  239. Sensational Slime
  240. Silly Straw Glider
  241. Simple Machines
  242. Simple Machines
  243. Simulation of Gene Splicing
  244. Slinky Science
  245. Slippery Substances - Lubricants
  246. Soap-Powered Paper Boats
  247. Soda Pop Can Hero Engine
  248. Solar Hot Box
  249. Solar Hot Dog Cooker
  250. Spider Fun
  251. Spin, Eggs, Spin!
  252. Spinning Blimps
  253. Sponges and Seeds
  254. Spudnicks - A Rice-Crispy & Marshmallow Snack!
  255. Spud Stuff
  256. Stalactites and Stalagmites to Go
  257. St. Patrick's Day Snack
  258. Stream Table
  259. String It Along
  260. Structure of Matter
  261. Student Investigation on the Immune System and Heme-agglutination
  262. Super Sparker
  263. Suspension Bridge
  264. Synthesis of Aspirin
  265. Synthesis of Soap

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  266. Tasty Solution
  267. Teaching Multiple Alleles
  268. Testing for Acid
  269. The Touch 'n' Feel Box
  270. Transpiration
  271. Tree Bark Casts

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  272. Understanding Waves
  273. Up Periscope
  274. Using Microscopes
  275. Using A Winogradsky Column to Analyze Microbial Communities

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  276. Viscosity
  277. Visible Spectra of Soda Pops
  278. Vitamin C in Fruit Juices

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  279. Waste Management
  280. Watch the Brain Learn
  281. Water Bottle Rocket Launcher
  282. Water Color Racing
  283. Water Drop Magnifier
  284. Water Magic
  285. Water Pollution
  286. Watershed Modeling
  287. Weathering Experiments: Sugar Cubes, Steel Wool & Gravel
  288. What Are Seeds?
  289. What Causes Tooth Decay
  290. What Do Plants Need to Live?
  291. What Is Air?
  292. What Is a Medicine?
  293. What Is Mud?
  294. What Is Water?
  295. What Makes a Bird a Bird?
  296. What Plants Do I Like to Eat?
  297. What's Evaporation?
  298. What Shape Is Water?
  299. What's It Like to Molt Like a Snake?
  300. Whose Skeleton Is in Your Closet?
  301. Why Can Insects Stand on Water?
  302. Wild Seed Fun
  303. Wind Detective
  304. Wind Erosion
  305. Windows on Life
  306. Wind Gauge - Build your own!
  307. Wind Sounds
  308. Worm Bin Project

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  309. Yeast - A Dihybrid Cross
  310. Your Own Electroboard

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  311. Zoo Vet

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