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  • Additive Colors

    To discover how white light is made.


  • Balloon Rocket Car

    To demonstrate Newton's Third Law of Motion by constructing a balloon-powered rocket car.


  • Build an Electromagnet

    To find out how electromagnetism works by constructing an electromagnet and be able to answer the question “How does electromagnetism work?”


  • Build an Inclinometer

    To build a device that will trace the lines of the Earth's magnetic field.


  • Create Lightening

    To create your own lightening using just a few simple tools – things that you are likely to find already in your home or at the grocery store. You will be able to see and possibly hear the lightening as it’s created!


  • Egg in a Bottle

    To put an egg into a bottle and take it out intact using the properties of air pressure.


  • Floating Ball Experiment

    To demonstrate the dynamics of air pressure


  • Floating Balloon

    To demonstrate the principle of buoyancy of warm air.


  • Friction And Vibration

    To determine if friction can cause a glass to vibrate. After this experiment you will be able to answer the question, “Why did the glass vibrate when you rubbed your index finger against the rim of the glass?”


  • Galileo's Experiment

    To demonstrate Galileo's falling objects experiment that states "What goes up, must come down". After this experiment you'll be able answer the question "Do larger objects fall faster than lighter ones under the same conditions?"


  • Homemade Windmill

    To construct a homemade windmill


  • Inertia of an Egg

    To identify a hard-boiled egg from among a dozen, the remainder being uncooked eggs and thereby demonstrate the Inertia of an Egg


  • Jar Compass

    To demonstrate the earth's magnetic force by creating our very own compass in a jar.


  • Levers And Force

    To demonstrate how levers use force.


  • Lift an Ice Cube

    To lift an ice cube from a glass of water using a string.


  • Long Lasting Bubbles

    To explore how one can create bubbles that are long lasting or permanent.


  • Magnified Light

    To demonstrate how sunlight can be intensified through a magnifying glass, concentrating energy to melt an ice cube.


  • Make a Fuse Model

    To make a model of a fuse. After this experiment, you will realize the importance of the fuse and be able to answer the question, “How can a fuse help prevent fire caused by faulty electrical wiring?”


  • Make a Parallel Circuit

    To construct a parallel circuit. After this experiment, you will be able to construct your own parallel circuit and answer the question, “Why are the electrical devices and appliances in the home commonly connected in parallel?”


  • Make An Elevator

    To demonstrate how elevators work through a series of pulleys by constructing our own elevator system.


  • Make Electric Circuits

    To construct a simple electric circuit and identify its parts. After this experiment, you will be able to name the parts of the simple electric circuit and answer the question, “When does electricity flow in the circuit?”


  • Make Objects Float

    To demonstrate how water displacement causes objects (such as ships) to float rather than sink.


  • Make Static Electricity

    To find out how static electricity is produced. After this experiment you will be able to differentiate static electricity from current electricity and answer the question, “What kind of electricity is produced when you rub two materials of different kinds?”


  • Matchbox Guitar

    To demonstrate how string instruments work by building our very own miniature guitar from a matchbox.


  • Missing Reflection

    To demonstrate how light rays interact with smooth surfaces to form reflections.


  • Musical Bottles

    To demonstrate how different pitched sounds are made.


  • Paper Bridge

    To construct a paper bridge that is strong enough to support several "vehicles" while demonstrating the force of tension.


  • Pascal’s Law

    To demonstrate Pascal’s Law


  • Pythagorean Tuning

    To demonstrate how the length of a piece of string can affect sound.


  • Rollercoasters & Loops

    To demonstrate how much height a marble will need (when funneled through a foam channel designed to mimic a rollercoaster) to make a complete loop of a certain size.


  • Rubber Heat Reaction

    To demonstrate how rubber material reacts when exposed to high levels of heat (rubber-band thermodynamics).


  • Secondary Colors

    To discover how secondary colors are derived from primary colors


  • Separate Salt And Pepper

    To demonstrate how static electricity can be used to separate pepper from a salt and pepper mix.


  • Snappy Sounds

    To demonstrate how colliding particles from vibration bang into one another to produce sound.


  • Sound Waves

    To demonstrate how sound waves can penetrate various types of materials.


  • Spectrum through Water

    To create a spectrum using a beam of light passing through water


  • Static Electricity

    To use static electricity to separate a mixture of salt and pepper


  • Super Strength Egg

    To demonstrate the strength of an eggshell when weight and pressure is applied to it.


  • Vibrating Coin

    To demonstrate the expansion of air when heated.


  • Water Displacement

    To demonstrate how water levels are affected by objects of various mass. This phenomenon is commonly known as water displacement.


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All Projects List

  • Accelerate Rusting
  • Acids And Bases
  • Additive Colors
  • Ant Microphotography
  • Apple Mummy
  • Balloon Rocket Car
  • Barney Banana
  • Bending Water
  • Bernoulli’s Principle
  • Blind Spot in Vision
  • Boiling Point of Water
  • Build an Electromagnet
  • Build an Inclinometer
  • Caffeine And Typing
  • Candle Race
  • Candy Molecules
  • Capillarity of Soils
  • Carbon in the Atmosphere
  • Checking vs. Savings
  • Chemical Metamorphosis
  • Clean Cleaners
  • Cleaning Oil Spills
  • Climbing Colors
  • Cloud Cover
  • CO2 & Photosynthesis
  • Collecting DNA
  • Colorful Celery
  • Coloring Matter in Food
  • Colors And Temperature
  • Composition of a Shell
  • Computer Passwords
  • Construct a Lung Model
  • Corrosiveness of Soda
  • Create a Heat Detector
  • Create Lightening
  • Cultivate Slime Molds
  • Cup of Lava
  • Dehydrated Potato
  • Desalinate Sea Water
  • Detergents and Plants
  • Dissolving in Liquids
  • Dissolving Solutes
  • Distillation of Water
  • Double Color Flower
  • Egg in a Bottle
  • Enzyme Activity
  • Eroding Away
  • Erosion Simulator
  • Evaportating Liquids
  • Expanding Soap
  • Exploding Ziploc
  • Extracting Starch
  • Fans And Body Temp
  • Fertilizer & Plants
  • Filtration of Water
  • Floating Ball Experiment
  • Floating Balloon
  • Fog Formation
  • Font and Memory
  • Food and Academics
  • Friction And Vibration
  • Fruit Battery Power
  • Full and Low Fat Foods
  • Galileo's Experiment
  • Gas To Liquid
  • Grape Juice & Cleaners
  • Gravity and Plants
  • Green Slime
  • Growing a Crystal
  • Growing Bread Mold
  • Growing Population
  • Haemoglobin Binding
  • Hard vs. Soft Water
  • Homemade Floam
  • Home-made Geodes
  • Home-Made Glue #1
  • Homemade Snowflakes
  • Home-made Stethoscope
  • Homemade Volcano
  • Homemade Windmill
  • Human Battery Power
  • Inertia of an Egg
  • Information and CD’s
  • Invisible Ink
  • Isolation of Bread Mold
  • Isolation of DNA
  • Jar Compass
  • Lemon Floaties
  • Levers And Force
  • Lift an Ice Cube
  • Light Colors and Plants
  • Long Lasting Bubbles
  • Magic Balloons
  • Magnified Light
  • Make a Compost Pile
  • Make a Fuse Model
  • Make a Parallel Circuit
  • Make An Elevator
  • Make Electric Circuits
  • Make Limestone
  • Make Objects Float
  • Make Static Electricity
  • Make your own sundial
  • Matchbox Guitar
  • Math and Gender
  • Mean, Median and Range
  • Measuring Air Pollution
  • Mentos Soda Volcano
  • Microbial Contaminants
  • Milky Plastic
  • Mini Greenhouse
  • Missing Reflection
  • Mixing With Water
  • Molls Experiment
  • Music and Plants
  • Musical Bottles
  • Nocturnal Plants
  • Ocean Life & Oil Spills
  • Ocean Temperature
  • Optical Mice
  • Oral Bacteria
  • Orange Water Volume
  • Organic vs. Inorganic
  • Osmosis
  • Oven Baked Ice Cream
  • Oxygen & Photosynthesis
  • Paper Bridge
  • Paper Marbling
  • Pascal’s Law
  • Play-Doh and Volume
  • Preserve Spider Webs
  • Pressure Volcano
  • Pulse Rates
  • Pythagorean Tuning
  • Refraction in Water
  • Rollercoasters & Loops
  • Rubber Bones
  • Rubber Heat Reaction
  • Rubbery Egg
  • Rust and Moisture
  • Search Engines
  • Secondary Colors
  • Seed Germination
  • Seed Germination II
  • Separate Salt And Pepper
  • Snappy Sounds
  • Soil Erosion
  • Soil vs. Hydroponics
  • Sound Waves
  • Spectrum through Water
  • Speed of Decomposition
  • Speed of Dissolving
  • Spore Prints
  • Star Observer
  • Static Electricity
  • Statistics and M&M’s
  • Stem-less Flowers
  • Super Strength Egg
  • Sweet Erosion
  • Temperature and CPUs
  • Thirsty Rocks
  • Tornado Demonstration
  • Translucent Egg
  • Transpiration in Plants
  • Typing and Speed
  • Vibrating Coin
  • Volcanic Gas
  • Water and Living Things
  • Water Displacement
  • Water Evaporation
  • Water pH
  • Your Planetary Age