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How Cool Is This?
How can a bowl of water feel warm to one hand and cool to the other?
Rainbow of Lace, A
Make this white flower burst with color!
Raise Your Hand
Try this simple experiment to see how the position of your hand can affect its color.
Make a Simple Glider
Find out how gliders fly by doing this simple experiment.
Water in Your Breath
How can your breath change grains of salt? Try this experiment and find out!
Open Your Eyes
See how light affects the pupils of your eyes.
Trapped Water
Learn about surface tension in this simple experiment.
Fill Them Up
Try to guess which kitchen container will hold the most water. Which will hold the least?
How Empty Is It?
This water bottle appears to be empty, but is it really?
Water Microscope
Use easy-to-find supplies to make a simple microscope, then see small objects magnified!
Seesaw Moment
Try this simple experiment and learn about balance.
Clearly Focused
Here's a science experiment to try in a swimming pool!
You're on a Roll
Find out how round objects reduce friction.
Air Has “Push”
Try this activity to experience the pressure of the air around you.
Make a Pinhole Camera
No film is necessary to make a pinhole camera.
Which Bounces Higher?
Learn about the energy of moving objects.
Possibilities and Probabilities
There's a good possibility that you'll enjoy trying this.
Taking Up Space
Eureka! Use water displacement to help you figure out the volume of an apple.
Down the Drain
Find out if water always swirls down drains in the same direction.
How You Tear It
Find out what you can learn by tearing a piece of newspaper.
Paper Engineering
Why are steel beams shaped in a certain way? Try this experiment to find out.
Trace the Shadows
Try this simple experiment, and prove that the Earth is spinning!
Listen with Your Teeth
Try this simple experiment to find out how solid objects carry sound vibrations.
The Reversing Arrow
Try this experiment to find out how the arrow changes direction.
Staying Warm
Do this experiment and find out how seals and walruses live in icy waters.
Spinning in the Wind
Here's how to make a simple turbine like the kind that powers windmills.
Into Thin Air
This activity shows the effect of evaporation.
Nine Squares in One
An easy way to make the perfect tic-tac-toe grid.
Make a Light Pipe
Transmit light with a light pipe you can make yourself.
Change the Flow
This experiment will prove that oil and water don't mix.
Can Tableware Float in the Air?
Try this simple experiment, and learn about balance.
Two Pendulums Taking Turns
See the strange effects two pendulums joined together have on each other.
The Möbius Strip: Math with a Twist
Check out this mind-boggling math trick.
It's a Squawker
Others will squawk at YOU when they hear this.
How You Judge Distance
Keep both eyes open and learn about how to judge distance.
Which Way Will They Go?
Find out which is stronger: air pressure or moving air.
Swimming Seeds
Make seeds dive and rise in a drinking glass.
True Acid Test, A
Use ordinary cabbage to identify acids and bases.
Room for More
How can you pour water into a jar that already seems full? Try this experiment to find out!
Iron Burns . . . Slowly
Check out the chemistry of rust.
Cupful of Compass, A
Here's an easy way to make a magnetic compass.
Water in the Air
An experiment that proves that air can carry water.
What Passes Through Here?
What kinds of dust, dirt, and little creatures move around in your home?
The Squirming Caterpillar
Make crumpled paper wiggle and find out why it does that with this experiment.
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