SCIENCE
Activities to explore Static Electricity
You've bought your ticket and boarded the roller coaster. Now you're barreling down the track at 60 miles per hour, taking hairpin turns and completing death-defying loops. Your heart is in your throat and your stomach is somewhere near your shoes. The only thing separating you from total disaster is a safety harness...but are you really in danger?
Sponsored by the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of Arizona and funded by the Flinn Foundation, the BIOTECH Project is designed to help Arizona high school teachers use hands-on biotechnology in the classroom.
Bizzare Stuff You Can Make in Your Kitchen This site is an ever growing warehouse of the kinds of projects some of the more demented of us tried as young people, collecting in one place many of the classic, simple science projects that have become part of the collective lore of amateur science. It is a sort of warped semi-scientific cookbook of tricks, gimmicks, and pointless experimentation, concoctions, and devices, using, for the most part, things found around the house. These are the classics. Strange goo, radios made from rusty razor blades, crystal gardens... amateur mad scientist stuff. If you happen to learn something in the process, consider yourself a better person for it.
Chemistry
These pages are full of Snacks...but they're not the kind you eat. They're the kind you can learn from and have fun with. Exploratorium Science Snacks are miniature versions of some of the most popular exhibits at the Exploratorium.
Hands-on Science Lesson Plans These lesson plans represent some of Science Connection's "tried-and-true" lessons. Science Connectors have done these lessons several times and found them to be real hits with the students. We welcome anyone to print them and use them in their classrooms.
How Far Does Light Go? Welcome to the "How Far Does Light Go?" project. This project is a debate of two different theories about how far light travels. In this project you will carefully examine evidence related to the debate.
This service uses data from the US Census and a supplementary list of cities around the world to find the latitude and longitude of two places, and then calculates the distance between them (as the crow flies). It also provides a map showing the two places, using the Xerox PARC Map Server.
Have you ever wondered how the engine in your car works or what makes the inside of your refrigerator cold? Then How Stuff Works is the place for you!
J-Pass Track satilites and planets.
Karyotyping Activity This exercise is a simulation of human karyotyping using digital images of chromosomes from actual human genetic studies. You will be arranging chromosomes into a completed karyotype, and interpreting your findings just as if you were working in a genetic analysis program at a hospital or clinic.
A Periodic Table of the Elements at Los Alamos National Laboratory
Periodic Table of the Elements
Chemical Elements and their Symbols
Learn the elements and their symbols
Simple Electrostatic Motor Build this high voltage motor from plastic pop bottles
"Static Electricity" means "High Voltage"
BEAMS is a program in which classes of 6th, 7th and 8th grade students are exposed to the scientific environment of Jefferson Lab.
TRAFFIC WAVES PHYSICS FOR BORED COMMUTERS
The following classroom activities introduce a variety of fundamental topics in meteorology. All necessary data and instructional resources are accessible from each activity. In addition, each activity is accompanied by a corresponding teacher guide (or answer key). Up to 90 minutes of classroom time may be needed to complete each activity.
Whelmers Science activities that will catch the eye and mind of even the most indifferent student.
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