Video Home Experiments Can Be Found on our YouTube Channel
See the Home Experiments Playlist Here! |
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Do you always believe
what you feel? |
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| How sensitive is your nose? |
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| Our senses of smell and taste interact to form impressions of what we eat, as well as of the world around us! |
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| Make your own music with simple household items! |
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| Build your own colorful bead bottle to amaze your friends! |
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| Use an indicator made from red cabbage juice to determine
whether household products are acids or bases. |
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Use
a heavier than air gas to suspend soap bubbles. This
will allow you to more closely examine the unique
properties of bubbles .
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| Ever played with a Lightstick? In this activity you
examine the chemiluminescent reaction that makes a
Lightstick glow in the dark. |
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| Use ordinary clear soda to make raisins dance. Learn
what's in soda that gives it fizz, and what causes
things that are heavier than water to float. |
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| Will
a bowling ball sink or float in water? The answer
seems obvious, but this experiment will show otherwise. |
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| Use
common liquids you can find around your house to make
a density column and a rainbow in a glass. |
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| Clean the tarnish off of silverware. You don't need
expensive cleaners, just this experiment. |
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| The power of wind is harnessed in this experiment.
Suspend a balloon in air without using your hands! |
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In
this activity you will examine the behavior of rubber
as it is affected by heat, a form of energy.
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| What
makes certain materials "glow" under a black
light? This experiment will tell you why. |
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| The
color of many candies come from dyes. This experiment
will separate some of those dyes out using a process
called chromatography. |
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| With
just a few household chemicals you can turn a glass
of colored liquid into a froth that overflows its
container. |
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| What
is the easiest way to pop a balloon? With a needle
of course. Is there a way to put a needle into a balloon
without popping it? |
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A
fire can weaken the rubber in a balloon and cause
it to burst. In this experiment you will find out
how you can hold a balloon directly in a flame without
breaking it.
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How
much force does it take to crush an aluminum can?
Is there a way to crush a can using only air pressure?
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| Why
does the sky look red during sunrises and sunsets?
We can learn why during this experiment. |
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| Static electricity can be a problem whenever the humidity
is low. In this experiment you will use static electricity
to "bend" water. |
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| Even though the egg is bigger than the opening of
the bottle, you can get the egg to go into the
bottle without touching it. |
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| Build your own apparatus to test the
electrical conductivity of solutions! |
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