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This activity provides instructions for cleaning pennies and also copper plating a screw with vinegar and salt.
HTML Document: 11 kb
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This activity provides instructions for making a salt structure that grows spontaneously from a salt solution.
HTML Document: 7 kb
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This activity provides instructions for making handmade paper from recycled paper.
HTML Document: 12 kb
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9-12
An extensive Web site that explores the science behind food and cooking. Six categories of food (candy, bread, eggs, pickles, meat, and seasoning) are investigated--though recipes and activities, Webcasts,...
HTML Document: 15 kb
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9-12
Postsecondary
This article describes how the carbohydrate we call sugar is made of two simple sugars called glucose and fructose.
HTML Document: 13 kb
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In this activity you can deflect a candle flame with a neodymium magnet. There are also directions for doing this as a "blind" experiment--where an observer can't see whether or not a magnet is near the...
HTML Document: 16 kb
9-12
Postsecondary
This article provides a brief look at how fermentation is used to make different foods, including pickles, bread, wine, and cheese.
HTML Document: 7 kb
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9-12
This activity includes directions for using vinegar to dissolve an eggshell without breaking the membrane that contains the egg.
HTML Document: 16 kb
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An ordinary chicken egg allows you to explore the movement of materials into and out of a cell. Instructions explain how to dissolve the shell of an egg. The membrane that surrounds the de-shelled egg...
PDF File: 2 Mb
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9-12
In this activity, we'll hook up a hair to a lever system and create a hair hygrometer to measure changes in humidity.
HTML Document: 9 kb
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