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Air cannon (with dry ice)
Air resistance
Anemometer
Animal adaptation collection
Animal dung study
Antacid molecules
Automaton - cardboard and foam machine
Baby shells
Baking powder chemistry
Baking soda and vinegar
Balance point on a stick or ruler
Balancing and centre of mass in your body
Balancing balloon with hairdryer
Balancing pole
Balancing sculpture
Balloon noises
Balloon rocket
Balloon shrinking writing
Balls for forces and energy transfer
Barnacles
Barometer
Beach Life Bingo
Bear prints
Bears: how big is a black bear?
Bears: How does a bear stay warm?
Bears: What and how much does a black bear eat?
Bee pheromone molecules
Bees: honeycomb art
Big Build
Bird beaks or Animal eating methods
Bird feeder
Bird flapping flip book
Black snakes
Blood vessels, pulse and heartbeat
Blue sky red sunset colours
Boat powered by surface tension
Body structure molecules
Bone slice puzzle and structure
Bottle rocket
Brain dissection
Bread
Bread: test ingredients for making gas
Bridge building challenge
Bridge shapes and forces
Brownian motion - watching molecule movement
Bubble art
Bubble colour
Bubble shapes - square bubble in a cube
Bubble shapes in a tray
Bubble shapes with pipecleaners
Bubbles - giant bubbles
Bubbles - make bubble mix and bubble blowers
Build an antacid molecule
Build fins and wings
Build smelly molecules
Build the molecules that give flowers their colours
Buoyancy, sinking and floating - free experimentation
Butter
Butter molecules
Candle chemistry
Candle heat pinwheel
Candle see saw
Cartesian diver
Catapult - open wooden frame
Catapult - torsion
Catapult from popsicle sticks
Catapult from tin can
Cheek cells
Cheese
Chemistry of bacteria in cake
Chicken observation: adaptations and behaviour
Chromatography with black markers and forensics of ink on a note
Chromatography with coloured candy
Chromatography with coloured marker pens
Chromatography with leaf colours
Clam basket weaving model
Clam dissection (or mussel)
Clams - filter feeding model
Clams - looking at the shell
Cloud in a bottle
Clouds, tornado and vortices with dry ice
CO2 in breath makes water more acidic
Coin game
Coke and mentos
Colour mixing and masking
Colour reversal illusions
Coloured lights make objects change colour
Coloured shadows
Colours change through filters
Combustion of a ping pong ball
Combustion of ethanol in a jug
Combustion shooter
Compass
Coupled orbits
Crater formation
Crystal shape observation with magnifiers/microscope
Crystal shapes from building blocks
Cup tower challenge
Dancing raisins
Decomposer and soil animals hunt outdoors
Decomposing foods
Deer skeleton
Discover mixtures, physical changes and chemical reactions through free experimentation
DNA
DNA code puzzle
DNA for a school assembly
DNA necklace with letters
Doppler effect
Dry ice bubbles
Dry ice in water
Dry ice making noise
Edible slime (Flubber)
Egg into bottle
Egg shell removal
Egg structure study
Elastic and rigid properties of materials
Elastic band stretch
Electric circuit steady hand game
Electric circuit to light a bulb
Electric circuits free experimentation with home-made wires and bulbs
Electricity - morse code
Electricity - test for conductance
Electrolysis with home made wires
Electromagnet
Elephant's toothpaste
Energy input and output in devices
Epsom salt crystal painting
Erosion and Stream flow
Extracting dyes from plants
Eye dissection
Eyes in predators and prey
Eyes: blind spot
Eyes: examine your eye
Fat test for keeping warm
Feather study
Feet and claws for digging and grabbing
Filtering Water
Fingerprinting
Fingerprints scenario (activity for Honey Mystery 3)
Fish feeding methods model
Fish trap model
Flame colour
Flower and apple dissection
Flower colours
Flower UV pattern matching game
Fluorescent toys
Foam molecules
Food web game
Forces in playdough
Friction challenge: move the teacher
Friction in shoes
Friction on a bike
Friction on a sledding hill
Friction: sliding blocks down ramps
Frost and dew
Fruit and vegetable indicator dyes
Fruit and vegetable search in art
Fruit ripening smells
Fur for keeping warm
Garden journal
Garden Scavenger hunt and Bingo game
Gas collection over water
Gazpacho soup
Glow stick chemistry
Glue
Granite minerals
Gravitational lensing model
Gravity Assist Model
Gravity Well
Growing borax crystals
Growing sugar crystals
Habitat survey and food web
Hair Analysis
Hair Analysis with stuffie hair (activity for Honey Mystery 1)
Hearing through our bones
Heart dissection
Heat and insulation in lunch bags
Heat conduction in a metal rod
Heat conduction in different materials
Heat convection demonstration
Heat melting ice cubes
Heat sources
Heat: What materials feel warm and cold?
Heating land and water
Helicopter and launcher
Herb necklace
Hoopster
Household levers
Hummer
Hydrogen peroxide chemistry
Ice cream
Inclined planes
Insects on flowers Bingo game
Invisible ink
Jumping stick
Kaleidoscope
Kingdoms of Life hunt
Laser beam in a stream of water
Laser beam in a tank of water
Lasers and mirrors
Leaf features: drip tips and waxy coating
Leg bone puzzle
Leg dissection (chicken)
Lemon battery
Lenses: lenses bend light
Lenses: magnify and invert an image
Lever experimentation: how bats and racquets work
Lever for lifting things
Lever free experimentation
Lever projecting a ball
Levers: measuring forces
Levitating magnets
Light attraction of brine shrimp (and other pond organisms)
Live fish
Luminescent candy
Magnet pendulum
Magnet sculpture
Magnet strength
Magnetic car race
Magnetic Field Patterns in oil
Magnetic fishing game
Magnetic force field patterns
Magnetic force through materials
Magnets: paper clip bridge
Magnets: what sticks to them?
Magnified images hunt
Magnifiers and Microscopes
Magnifiers and sun makes fire
Making mixtures: solutions, suspensions and colloids
Making sturdy structures: building and reinforcing shapes
Marble collisions
Matching flowers with insects they attract
Math and plants: counting and graphing petal number
Math and plants: measuring and estimating plant height
Measuring temperature
Meringue
Milkshake: foam in food
Mineral testing: hardness and streak colour
Mini baking soda rocket (film canister)
Mirror faces
Mirror multiple reflections
Mirror symmetry patterns
Mirror writing and drawing
Mirrors for looking round corners
Mobile
Mobius strips
Modeling Clay
Molecular modelling of combustion
Molecular modelling of yeast converting sugar to gas
Molecule modelling free play
Molecules moving in warm and cold water
Moon Phases Model
Moon regolith
Motor
Motor free play
Mountain contours / topography
Muscle contractions in your body
Muscle structure magnified
Native Plant Bingo 1
Native Plant Bingo 2
Natural selection game
Nitrogen Cycle with molecular modelling
Noise pollution game
Nurse Log Study
Nutrients in animal feed
Oat seed bars
Oil and water floating experiment
Oil spill clean up simulation
Oobleck
Opposable thumbs
Paper airplanes
Paper helicopters
Paper marbling
Paper tower challenge
Pendulum drawing board
Perfume making
Pet cat demonstration
Physical change introduction
Pin and ring game
Pinball machine
Pinwheel
Planet surface features formed by wind and liquid
Plant smell matches and molecules
Plant vessels in flowers
Plant xylem vessels under the microscope
Planting
Plasma Ball
Playdough
Playground structures Forces and energy
Pollen collection
Pond dipping
Popcorn
Posting game with smell molecules/pollinators...
Pressure in a bottle
Printing with leaves
Projectiles free play
Pulley free play
Pulleys and water bottles to feel the forces
Pulleys to lift a person or heavy load
Pulleys to pull each other together
Pulleys: measuring forces in pulley systems
Rain gauge
Rain gauge model - tipping bucket
Rainbow with a hose and the sun
Rainbow with water and flashlight
Rainbows from light with a CD/prism/cut glass/scratched plastic
Reaction time
Red cabbage dye (and pH indicator)
Reducing Friction with ice (lubricant) and rolling
Rock collection
Rock colours
Rock cycle crayon model
Rocket Chemistry Molecular Modelling (liquid oxygen/liquid hydrogen)
Rocket powered by baking soda and vinegar (demonstration)
Rocks: geodes
Roller coaster
Root growth visualized
Root shapes
Sand (or mud) study
Saxophone
Scone chemistry
Scribbling machine
Seasons model
Seaweed study
Sedimentary sand art
Sedimentary uplifting
Seed dissection
Seed germination and gravity
Seed germination requirements
Seed hunt and study
Shadow shapes
Shadows and mirrors
Shaker from recycled water bottle
Shapes in structures
Shooter
Simple machines in a woodwork project
Simple machines on a bike
Slime and Silly putty recipes
Smell pairs: herbs and plants
Smells in the air demonstration
Smelly paintings
Snail close observation
Snail habitat
Soda drink
Soil component study
Soil habitat study
Soil sieving
Soil tests
Solar System to scale
Sound frequency detection
Sound sandwich
Sound through string
Sound vibration model
Sound with a ruler
Sounds in a box
Sour candy chemistry
Sour food chemistry
Speaker
Spectroscope
Speed of sound calculation
Spider camouflage
Spider web - preserve a real web
Spider web shapes
Spinning chair
Star constellation model
States of matter (and temperature) in Water
States of Matter Scavenger Hunt
States of matter: acting them out
Static electricity sparks and lightning model
Static electricity with a balloon
Static electricity: jumping rice crispies
Static electricity: light a bulb
Stomp rocket
Stream Chemistry
String telephone
Structure from triangles
Sun print
Sun spot observation
Sun's angle on earth
Sundial
Surface tension with paperclips
Symmetrical painting
Taste and smell for identifying candy flavours
Taste bud observation
Taste tests for the five basic tastes
Teeth in herbivores, carnivores and us
Temperate rainforest plant features
Temperature measurements in a pond
Temperature sensing
Tides model
Tornado in a bottle
Touch sensitivity
Turbulence visualized
Twining
Visual deprivation walk
Water cycle bracelet
Water cycle model
Water filter molecules
Water flow with temperature and salt variation
Water pH test
Water resistance
Water resistance: racing shapes through water
Water wheel to lift a weight
Weathering rocks
Wheel and forces
Which parts of the plant do we eat?
Wind spinner free experimentation
Wind vane
Wind-blown seed design
Wood bug classroom habitat
Wood bugs: close observation
Wood bugs: what do they like to eat?
Wood bugs: where do they like to live?
Worms: close observation
Worms: indoor compost bin
Yeast eats sugar and makes gas