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Last updated 10 Mar 2010
Acid Rain: An Air Pollutant
Acid Rain: "It's Eating Away at You"
Adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD): A Case Study Using the Film “Lorenzo’s Oil”
Airfoil Experiment 2
Airfoil Experiment 3
Air Pollution Control
Air Pressure
Air ... What Gives?
Alka Rockets
Alternative Energy Sources
Anatomy and Physiology "Quickies"
Antacid Tablet Race
Are You Being Poisoned by Your Dishes?
Balloon Blow-Up
Biomes in a Box
Bottle Habitat
Bouncing Eggs
Bubble Bomb
Bubble-ology & Bernoulli
Bubbularium
Buggy Diner
Cake Batter Lava
Calls of the Wild
Chemical Changes
Cookie Topography
Counting the Stars
Cricket Dissection
Demonstrating an Epidemic
Demonstration of Cheese-Making Enzyme Magic
Density
Density: An AskERIC Lesson
Describing Soils
Determining Acids and Bases
Diffusion of Molecules
Direct & Diffuse Light
DNA Extraction Lab
Down the Drain
Downhill Discoveries
Earth: The Apple of Our Eye
Edible Rocks
The Effect of Citrus Oils on Fruit Flies
Egg Carton Glider
Egg Protector
Enzymatic Reaction
Enzymes
Enzyme Grabbers
Enzyme Labs Using Jello
An Enzyme Substrate Model
Establishing Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium
Exothermic Reactions Used in Hot Packs
Extraction of DNA from Onion
Finger Boomerangs
Fishy Frequencies
Flipsticks
Flying Tube
Folds and Faults
Gelatin Volcanoes
Germinating Seeds with Liquid Crystals
Green Space in the City
Groundwater Quality
Hand Washing
The Heart and the Circulatory System
How Does Chance Influence Inheritance?
How Much Do You Weigh?
How to Tell When Mealworms Are Out of Breath
How We See
Identification of an Unknown Substance
Impact Craters
Introduction to DNA Extractions
Junk Mail Airmail
Lava Layering
Laws of Reflection
Leaf Stomata as Bio-indicators of Environmental Change
Lemon Battery
Liquid Bottle Rocket
Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream
Listen Up!
Lotic Environment Lesson Plans
Magnificent Microscopes
Making a Straw Woodwind
Making Three-Dimensional Plant & Animal Cell Models
Manufacture a CD Crate
Mapping Animal Behavior
Marshmallow Building and Bridges
Match Stick Rocket
Measuring Calories
Metamorphic Rock Pancakes
M & M Lab
A Model of a Bacterial Plasmid
Mousetrap Vehicle
Movement
Needle Through a Balloon
Neutralizing Ability of Antacid Tablets
Non-Compressibility of Water
The Nose Knows
Observation: Where Is My Peanut?
One + One = One
Onion DNA Extraction
The Opposable Thumb
Optical Images
Orbital Forces
Piles of Fire
Plant Biotechnology: Controlling Tissue Differentiation
Plants and Gravity
Plant Transpiration
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
Recycling Paper
Reflecting Rainbows
Regolith Formation
Restriction Enzymes
Rocket Science: Balloon Race
Rocket Science: Rocket Poppers
Roller Coasters in the Classroom
Roto-Copter
Salt Volcano
Sampling Carbon Dioxide
SA/V Ratio & Rate of Diffusion
Simple Machines
Slinky Science
Soda Pop Can Hero Engine
Solar Hot Box
Solar Hot Dog Cooker
Spudnicks
- A Rice Krispies & Marshmallow Snack!
Stream Table
Super Sparker
The Synthesis and Properties of Soaps
Tasty Solution
Teaching Multiple Alleles
Testing for an Acid
Transpiration
Understanding Waves
Up Periscope
Using A Winogradsky Column to Analyze Microbial Communities
Waste Management
Water Bottle Rocket Launcher
Weathering Experiments: Sugar Cubes, Steel Wool & Gravel
What Is a Medicine?
Whose Skeleton Is in Your Closet?
Wind Erosion
Windows on Life
Yeast - A Dihybrid Cross
Your Own Electroboard
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