Plant food – a nitrogen project – Chemistry
A jug of nitrogen fertilizer It's pretty easy to see just how much a plant needs nitrogen to grow. Just take any two plants (they could be small house plants, [...]
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Playing with Mercury video – Chemistry Projects
Unfortunately, you should not play around with mercury because it can be poisonous. It's hard to get these days anyway, now that they don't sell mercury fever thermometers anymore. But you can [...]
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Lead fishing weights – Science project
Lead weights used for fishing How heavy is lead? See for yourself how heavy lead weights are. Go to a sports store and get some small lead fishing weights (make sure [...]
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Rust and iron – Chemistry project
A rusty sign You can easily see that iron rusts and turns red when oxygen touches it. Go look around your backyard or your neighborhood and try to find ten things [...]
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Ice floats – Chemistry project
Ice floats: A glass of ice water A project with ice To see that ice takes up more room than water does, stick a piece of tape to a glass [...]
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Ice and salt – Chemistry project
A group of glasses of water Take five glasses of water. Leave one plain water, add one tablespoon of salt to the second glass, two tablespoons of salt to the [...]
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Water project with coloring – Chemistry Projects
Food coloring and water project - A glass of water How can we see molecules move? To see that water molecules move around even when the water seems to be [...]
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Helium balloon projects – Chemistry
You can see that helium is lighter than air by getting a helium balloon. When you let go of it, it goes up, because the helium is lighter than the nitrogen and [...]
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Friction and food coloring – Heat project
Children playing a running game: a heat project Friction makes things hot You can easily make things hotter than they were before. Start by rubbing your hands together, and you'll [...]
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Cooking pots – Copper science project – Chemistry
Copper-bottomed cooking pot: a science project Why do pots have copper bottoms? Because heat and electricity are closely related, copper is also a good conductor of heat. This is why [...]
