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Solar Oven
Students apply the concepts of energy, energy transfer, transformations and waves to build a solar oven that uses the light energy from the sun. Students test their oven in cooking from a list of selected items during school hours.
Food Choices: Solar Oven
Students build towers or other buildings out of clay and coffee stirrers (or alternate material). Students test the buildings for sturdiness and flexibility using a shake table that simulates an earthquake.
Can Crusher Lab
SUSPENSION lAB: Ooblek
SUSPENSION lAB: Ooblek
Suspensions are mixtures that do not evenly distribute their contents in a container. suspensions would be like a salad where every bite is different and solutions are like vanilla pudding where every bite is the same.
Elephant Toothpaste
1/2 cup of hydrogen peroxide, a big squirt of dish soap, swirl gently to mix.
Add food coloring.
Elephant Snot/Slime Lab - VIDEO:
Chemical reaction: With borax and glue -. Prelab: - Read pages 113 and 129-130 & SLIDES #32-52
Predict and test the best liquid to prevent food from turning brown.
Instructions page
Acids and Bases pH tests
Students will use cabbage juice to test pH of common household items.
Walking Water Experiment Video
Pour half of the full glass into the empty one. Can you get the water to "walk" between the glasses using nothing but a paper towel?
INSTRUCTIONS document
Further Exploration: What happens if you connect three cups, initially filled with water, to an empty fourth, central cup? Connect two cups that are initially filled to different heights with water?
Sugar Rainbow lab
Density - while creating colorful designs using different sugar concentrations
Sugar Rainbow #1 - instructions #1
Density: Who can build the best boat? Use aluminum foil to build a boat that will hold as many pennies/marbles as possible Engineer many designs to find the best design.
Prelab: Why do Ships float
Directions for Lab: VIDEO:
Marshmallow-Spaghetti Tower Challenge.
Build the tallest tower using marshmallow and spaghetti. Must end with only one marshmallow at the very top and support a cork.
Drag lesson
How drag affects falling objects. Make a variety of paper shapes (cones, boxes) and see how size, shape and weight affect the speed with which their paper shapes fall.
Make Fake Snow
Experience something similar to snow anytime with this fun activity. Curious about how kitchen chemistry can look like snow? Try this activity and find out!
Copper Plated Coin
In this project, you’re going to do two things: "electrolysis" and "electroplating". How do you do those things? Well, their scientific-sounding names give you a clue: it is with electricity!
Mentos Fountain
Students devise and run experimental tests, testing how variables like nozzle shape, soda temperature, number of candies affect fountain height. and combine results to design the highest fountain to compete head-to-head with the teacher's geyser design.
Animal Adaptations
Bird beaks are incredibly diverse. How did such a wide diversity of beaks evolve? To find out, you’ll try a new twist on an old favorite: A simulation of bird beak evolution!
Beak Evolution lab worksheets
Nature Solar Art
Students use solar exposure to create artistic prints using cyanotype paper.
Selective Permeable Membrane
Students learn that engineers develop different polymers to serve various functions and are introduced to selectively permeable membranes.
The World of Cells
Students will use a microscope to compare and contrast plant and animal cells using prepared slides.
Newton's Third Law and Balloon Rocket
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