Observing the planet Mars – Astronomy
Seeing the planet Mars - a Mars project See Mars for yourself! You can see Mars for yourself in the sky at night, without a telescope or binoculars. Look for [...]
Seeing the planet Mars - a Mars project See Mars for yourself! You can see Mars for yourself in the sky at night, without a telescope or binoculars. Look for [...]
(not to scale)Thanks to The Fraudulent Volcano blog To see how an eclipse happens, get a flashlight or a candle (to be the sun). Get an orange (to be the Earth). And get a ball about [...]
An eclipse of the moon. You can see the curved shadow of the Earth. Watch an eclipse as an astronomy project! Dance the Earth and the Sun... To get a [...]
You can make a guitar out of a shoebox and rubber bands Begin by making some loud noises, like hitting a drum and clapping your hands. Can you feel the [...]
Radiation from the sun caused this sunburned back The most common kind of radiation is sunlight, and the most common cause of injury from radiation is a sunburn. Just like radioactivity from a [...]
Build your own model of a fusion reaction: start with a regular red lego (a proton). Wrap a rubberband around it to be the strong nuclear force. Then connect a small blue lego (an electron) to [...]
Make a bunch of paper balls One atom of uranium has 92 protons and about 145 neutrons in its nucleus. So make 92 small balls of paper... no, that would be too [...]
A zipper is a kind of wedge - or a lot of little wedges! For a project about wedges, collect as many different kinds of wedges as you can find around [...]
Weight machines involve lots of pulleys An exercise machine is a great example of a pulley system. If you can get to a gym or a community center that has [...]
Friction project: How much friction do you think a scrubbing brush will get you? Make some friction predictions Which things have more friction? Try to predict which things will be [...]