Quick Science Activities
Science Activities, Science Experiments
Quick Science Activities
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Acid Rain: An Air Pollutant
Acid Rain: "It's Eating Away at You"
Acid Rain: The Disappearing Statue
Adrenoleukodystropy (ALD): A Case Study Using the Film "Lorenzo's Oil"
Air Cannon
Airfoil Experiment 2
Airfoil Experiment 3
Air Pollution Control
Air Pressure
Air ... What Gives?
Air Cannon
Alka Rockets
Alternative Energy Sources
Analysis of Ink by Paper Chromatography
Anatomy and Physiology "Quickies"
And/Or Circuits
Animal Adaptations
ANTacid - Bases and Acids
Antacid Tablet Race
Antenna Antics
All About Apples
Are All Liquids the Same?
Are You Being Poisoned by Your Dishes?
Attracting Balloons
A Bagful of Surprises
Baggie Science
Balloon Blow-Up
Balloon Charge
Balloon Surprise!
Balloon Vacuum
Battery Life
Bells in Your Ears
Bernoulli Cans
Big Bottle Barometer
Biological Rhythms
Biomes in a Box
Black Magic
Blood Circulation Lab
Blubber Glove
Bottle Habitat
Bottle blow-up
Bouncing Eggs
Brain Injury Eggs-periment
Bring Springtime Buds Inside
Brown Bag Science
Bubble Bomb
Bubble Fun
Bubble-ology
Bubble-ology & Bernoulli
Bubbularium
Buggy Diner
Build a Galvanometer
Building a Balloon Rocket
Butterfly Optical Illusion Activity
Butterflies and Symmetry
The Buzz on Bees
Cake Batter Lava
Calls of the Wild
CANdemonium
Can I Make a Maraca?
Can I Make a Rain Cloud?
Can I Make Raisins?
Carrot Root Fun
A Changing Resistor
Charge It!
Chemical Changes
Chemical Methods of Control
Chemistry in Black & White Photography
Circulation of Water in Celery
Coat Hanger Balance
A Code Key
Color Mixing
Color My World - Frosting Graham Crackers
Colorful Bouquet
Combustion
Combustion & Carbon Dioxide
Cookie Topography
Copper Caper
Counting the Stars
Create a Card
Creating Paper Towel Art
Creating Tangrams
Cricket Dissection
Crystal Creations
Crystals
Dancing Penny
A
DC Generator
Demonstrating an Epidemic
Demonstration of Cheese-Making Enzyme Magic
Density
Density Balloons
Density: An AskERIC Lesson
Describing Soils
Detecting Meteors
Determination of the Amount of Phosphate in a Detergent
Determining Acids and Bases
Diffusion of Molecules
Diggin' Dirt
Direct & Diffuse Light
Directional Switches
Discovering Plant Stomates
DNA Extraction
DNA Extraction Lab
DNA Sequencing Simulation
Do-It-Yourself Lung Model
Donut Sort
Down the Drain
Downhill Discoveries
Dracula's Dinner
Ear Guitar
Ears and Hearing
Earth: The Apple of Our Eye
Echo in My Head!
Edible Plants
Edible Rocks
The Effect of Citrus Oils on Fruit Flies
Egg Carton Glider
Egg Magic
Eggs Don't Break?
Egg Protector
Electromagnetic Signals
Electron Flash
Electron Traffic
Elevator Physics
Energy Transfer
Enzymatic Reaction
Enzyme Grabbers
Enzyme Labs Using Jello
Enzymes
An Enzyme Substrate Model
Erosion
Erosion
Establishing Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium
Evaporation
Exothermic Reactions Used in Hot Packs
Expansion of Water As It Freezes
Experimenting with Friction
Exposed Surface Area & the Rate of a Chemical Reaction
Extraction of DNA from Onion
Falling Test Tubes
Finger Boomerangs
Fingerpaint Leaf Prints
Fire Beetles
Fishy Frequencies
Flipsticks
Flower Power
Flying Tube
Flying Wing
Folds and Faults
Following the Mealworm's Metamorphosis
Friction
Friction: Roll With The Changes
Fun With Air
Funny Fingers
Fuse It!
Gelatin Volcanoes
The Genetics of Parenthood
Germinating Seeds with Liquid Crystals
The Giant Cell
Glaucoma
Gliders
Glitter Globe
Glue Polymer
Good Vibrations
Grasshopper Study
Grass Seed Fun
Great Ice Guessing Game
Green Growing Gifts
Green Space in the City
Groundwater Quality
Growing Alfalfa Sprouts
Growing Salt Crystals
Hand Washing
Healthy Heart
Hearing Fun
Heartbeat
The Heart and the Circulatory System
Hovering Card Trick
How are plastics made?
How Big Is a Hand?
How Can I Make a Fire Extinguisher?
How Can You Make a Flashlight Shine Brighter?
How Do Animals Protect Themselves?
How Does Chance Influence Inheritance?
How Do I Make a Fossil Print?
How Do Refrigerators Make Things Cold?
How to Make Bottle Pipes
How Much Do You Weigh?
How to Tell When Mealworms Are Out of Breath
How We See
Ice Cream in a Bag
Ice Cream Social
Identification of an Unknown Substance
Impact Craters
Inch of Skin
Inching Around
Inclined Plane Physics
Inclined Plane Physics and Art
Introduction to DNA Extractions
Iron in Cereal
It Floats
Joysticks in the Wind
Joystick Switches
Junk Mail Airmail
Kids on Mars
A Lab Trilogy for Beginning Biology Teachers
Latent Heat
Lava Layering
Laws of Reflection
Leaf Stomata as Bio-indicators of Environmental Change
Leaping Electrons
Learning with Laundry
Lemon Battery I
Lemon Battery II: Fruity Electricity
Lemon Battery III: Lemon Power
Let the Light Shine In: The Iris
Let's Make Bubbles
Let's Make Insect Nets!
Let's Make a Puddle Cake!
How can you lift four times your weight?
Liquid Bottle Rocket
Liquid Layers
Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream
Liquid Rainbow
Listen Up!
Loop the LED
Loop the Loop
Lost World Dinosaurs
Lotic Environment Lesson Plans
Lung Model
Macaroni
Magnet Fun
Magnetic Current
Magnets
Magnificent Microscopes
Make a Machine
Make an Electromagnet
Make a Spectroscope
Make a Wind Sock
Make Your Own Bubbles
Make Your Own "Mess"
Make Your Own Paper
Make Your Own Powerlock
Make Your Own Private Lightning
Make Your Own Rain Gauge
Making an Ant House
Making a Bird Mural
Making a Dry Flower Bouquet
Making an Electroscope
Making a Flying Saucer
Making a Fruit Fly Trap
Making Fruit-Shape Kebobs
Making Homemade Instruments
Making Magic Potions
Making Milk Glue
Making No-Bake Peanut Butter Cookies
Making a Pinhole Camera
Making a Pondscope
Making a Spectroscope
Making a Spider Web
Making a Straw Woodwind
Making Three-Dimensional Plant & Animal Cell Models
Making a Wind Sock
Manufacture a CD Crate
Mapping Animal Behavior
Marshmallow Building and Bridges
Match-Stick Rocket
McEagle Styrofoam Glider
Measure for Pleasure
Measuring Calories
Metamorphic Rock Pancakes
"Minimum" Solar Box Cooker
Mixtures & Sugar Cubes
M & M Lab
A Model of a Bacterial Plasmid
Mold I: Growing Your Own
Mold II: Growing Your Own
Mold III: Growing Your Own Antibiotic
Mold IV: Mold Terrarium
The Money Pile
Motoring Electromagnetically
Mousetrap Vehicle
Movement
Musical Coathanger
Neat Sheet
Needle Through a Balloon
Neutralizing Ability of Antacid Tablets
NEWspaper
Newton's Science Try-Its: Build a Hovercraft to The Inner Life of a Leaf
Newton's Science Try-Its: Cut the Cube to Eggs Supporting Books
Newton's Science Try-Its: Fire Extinguishers to Dancin' Raisins
Newton's Science Try-Its: Make a Barometer to Soak Some Spuds
Newton's Science Try-Its: Pop a Penny to Boiling Water Without Heat
Newton's Science Try-Its: Racing Jars to Projectiles and Satellites
Nickel Karate
Non-Compressibility of Water
Noodle
The Nose Knows
Objects Race 500
Observation: Where Is My Peanut?
Oily Colors
One Color or Two?
One + One = One
Onion DNA Extraction
The Opposable Thumb
Optical Images
Orbital Forces
Outrageous Ooze
Paper Clip Parachutes
Pasta Patterns
Peas and Particles
Pepper Scatter
Picky Toothpicks
Pictures from Light
Piles of Fire
How can you force a physical change in matter?
Plant Biotechnology: Controlling Tissue Differentiation
Plants and Gravity
Plants and Seeds
Plant Transpiration
How are plastics made?
Pliable Proteins
Pollen Collection & Identification
Polystyrene Containers
Population Dynamics of Growth of Drosophila
Porosity
Potato Float
Potential & Kinetic Energy
Potential Energy
Pressure of a Gas & Temperature
Pretzel Predictions
Pringles Pinhole Camera
Problem Solving in Genetic Disorders
Projectiles
Properties and Synthesis of Soap
Pyramids and Cubes - Straw Structures
Quantitative Analysis of Lead
The Rain Game
Rain Rulers
Random Walk
Rate of Gas Evolution from the Reaction of Alka-Seltzer Tablets with
Water
Reaction Time
Reading with a Candle
Reaping Rocks
Recipes for Homemade Fun
Recycling Paper
Reflecting Rainbows
Regolith Formation
A Relay
Remote Control Roller
Resistor Colour Code
Respiratory System
Restriction Enzymes
Rock Candy
Rocket Launch
Rocket Science: Balloon Races
Rocket Science: Rocket Poppers
Rocket to Success
Roller Coasters in the Classroom
Roto-Copter
Rubberbandology
Rubber Egg
Rubber Eggs
Rust
Salt and Boiling Water
Salt, Soil, and Seeds
Salt Volcano
Sampling Carbon Dioxide
SA/V Ratio & Rate of Diffusion
Sculpture Creations
Secret Bells
Seeing Air
Sensational Slime
Shadow Shapes
Signals from Space
Singing Rod
Silly Straw Glider
Simple Machines
Simple Machines
Simple Scales
Simulation of Gene Splicing
Size of a Gas Molecule
Slinky Science
Slinky Science - ver. 2
Slippery Substances - Lubricants
Slip, Slide, Resist!
Soap-Powered Paper Boats
Soda Pop Can Hero Engine
Solar Hot Box
Solar Hot Dog Cooker
Solubility
Solubility of a Gas and Temperature
Solubility and Temperature
Solutions
Spider Fun
Spider Glider
Spin, Eggs, Spin!
Spinning Blimps
Sponges and Seeds
Spudnicks - A Rice-Crispy & Marshmallow Snack!
Spud Stuff
Stalactites and Stalagmites to Go
Static-Charged 2 X 4s
Static Electricity
Staying Young with Vitamin E
A Stirring Sight!
Stop and Go Electrons
St. Patrick's Day Snack
Straight from the Heart
Stream Table
String It Along
Strings and Springs
Strong Shapes
Structures
Structure of Matter
Student Investigation on the Immune System and Heme-agglutination
Sun-Powered Cooking
Summer Sprouting
Super Sparker
Suspension Bridge
Symmetry Surprise
Synthesis of Aspirin
Synthesis of Soap
T. P. Away
Tasty Solution
Teaching Multiple Alleles
Telephone Talk
Temperature & the Rate of a Chemical Reaction
Testing for Acid
Testing for Metals
Testing for Starch
Thaumatrope Motion Device
Tie Dye
The Touch 'n' Feel Box
Transforming Current
Transpiration
Tree Bark Casts
Tubes and Spheres Roller Coasters
Understanding Waves
Up Periscope
Up, Up, and Away!
Up, Up and Away with Bottles!
Using Microscopes
Using a Winogradsky Column to Analyze Microbial Communities
Viscosity
Visible Spectra of Soda Pops
Vitamin C in Fruit Juices
Volume of a Gas & Temperature
Waste Management
Watch the Brain Learn
Water Bottle Rocket Launcher
Water Color Racing
Water Drop Magnifier
Water Magic
Water Pollution
Watershed Modeling
Weathering Experiments: Sugar Cubes, Steel Wool & Gravel
What Are Seeds?
What Causes Tooth Decay
What Do Plants Need to Live?
What Is Air?
What Is a Medicine?
What Is Mud?
What Is Water?
What Makes a Bird a Bird?
What Plants Do I Like to Eat?
What's Evaporation?
What Shape Is Water?
What's It Like to Molt Like a Snake?
Whose Skeleton Is in Your Closet?
Why Can Insects Stand on Water?
Wild Seed Fun
Will All Liquids Mix Up?
Wind Catchers
Wind Detective
Wind Erosion
Windows on Life
Wind Sounds
Worm Bin Project
Yeast - A Dihybrid Cross
Your Own Electroboard
The Zapper
Zoo Vet
