Quatr.us Study Guides has piles of fun, simple activities you can do to illlustrate historical and scientific points. I’ll start with our biology activities – each activity is linked to one or more simple articles that explain the principle, and then the activity illustrates that principle. Some are as simple as looking at leaves; others are as complicated as building your own pinhole camera (still not that hard!). Most require nothing you can’t find around the house, in the park, or at your grocery store. I’ll start with biology and chemistry activities, and I’ll post more soon. If you have comments or questions about these, I’d be happy to answer them – ask in the comments!
Biology Activities
- Seeing Cells
- Fall Leaves
- DNA Game
- Bread and Spit
- Plant/Animal Cells
- Golgi Body Project
- Looking at Flowers
- Oil and Water
- Exercise!
- Plants and Sun
- Making Yogurt
- Eating Seaweed
- Chewing Gum/Jello
- RNA Legos
- Soap Bubbles
- Making Bread
- Vaccination Stories
- Looking for Spores
- Collecting Pine Cones
- Moss Garden
- Beach Trip
- Aquarium Trip
- Feathers
- Pinhole Camera
- Sandboxes
- A Whole Fish
- Planting Seeds
Chemistry Activities
- Soda Cans
- Chalk and Lemons
- Candles and Cars
- Dry Ice
- Bread and Bleach
- Cooking pots
- Heat Activities
- Helium Balloons
- Water Movement
- Freezing Salt Water
- Ice Floats
- Rust
- Fishing Weights
- Mercury Video
- Plant Food
- Oxygen and Candles
- Sand Castles
- Sodium Videos
- Steam Kettles
- Magnet and Paper Clip
- Eggs and Matches
- Tin Cans
- Dominoes
- Metal Activities
- Lenses and Fire