Presents a variety of activities, projects, and experiments that help to illustrate and explain all sorts of scientific principles.
Introduction
Beating the heat
- Make a Foil Lamp Shade
- Step on a Crack
- Day and Night in a Can
- Decorate a Hat
- Melt a Kiss
- Color Me Warm
- Birds on a Wire
Why Is There Air?
- The Collapsing Bottle
- The Wonderful Whistle-Stick
- The Talking Coin
- The Incredible Shrinking Face
- Launch Your Own Astronauts
- The Trick Straw Race
- The Collapsing Tent
- Make a parachute
- The Singing Balloon
- The Rising Notebook Trick
- Air-Head Person
- Real String Soap in a Bottle
- Underwater Eggspert
- Acupuncture Balloon
- "Boil, Boil Magical Water"
Water, Water, Everywhere!
- "I Was Here First!"
- Flowing Fountain
- Two Water Towers
- "I Think I'll Eat Worms"
- The Power of Water
- Ice Boat Float
- The Floating Glass
- Disappearing Salt
- "Freeze Me and I'll Burst!"
- 1 + 1 Does Not Always = 2
- "Give Me Room!"
- The Shrinking Molecule
- Shy Blue
- Make a "Dropper"
- Square Bubbles from Square Holes?
- More Than Enough
- Water "Glue"
- Stick Together, Stay Together
- Fishing for "Clippies"
- Water-Drop Art
- Oil versus Water
- Make a Waterwheel
- Deep-Bottle Diver
- The Warm and Cold of It
- Make a Purple People-Eater
Seeing the Light
- Sometimes Bigger Is Better
- Make Your Own Movie Screen
- The Reappearing Penny
- Big Bold Letters
- Amazing 3-Ring Light Show
Sounds Like Fun
- Deep "C", High "C"
- Catching Sound
- The Amazing Hum-o-comb
- Was It Ripped or Torn?
- Make Your Own Sound Studio
- The Silence of Snow
- Cigar-Box Guitar
- Dance, Sprinkles, Dance
- Natural Vibrations
- Musical Nails
- Make a Megaphone
- Dancing Cereal Puffs
- Wild Animal Calls
A Matter of Gravity
- Feel the Force
- Which Drops Faster?
- Find the Center of Gravity
- Wacky Ball
- Anti-Gravity Magic
Physics Mix
- The Deep, Dark Hole
- A Gyroscope in Your Pocket
- The Kissing Balloons
- Make a Balloon Rocket
- The Magic Water Bucket
- The Pendulum Sand Painting
It's Crystal Clear
- Sparkling Soda
- Astronomical White Asteroids
- Crazy Cave Icicles
- The Diamond Mine
- Blue Moon Rocks
- Rocky Mountains
- The Gem Show
- Hi, Sugar!
The Lab: CO2 and You
- Dynamite Dumplings
- How to Make a Manometer
- The Care and Use of Your Manometer
- CO2 Uplift
Kitchen Alchemy
- Spicy Infusion
- Give An Infusion Party
- Butter Me Up
- "Emulsional" about Mayonnaise
- In a Pickle
- Atoms Apple
- Lemon Aide
- Herb Dressing: To Be or Not to Be?
- I Scream!
- Endothermic Frozen Treat: Cranberry Lemon Snow
- Maple Snow Sugar
- Batter on the Moon
- I've Got a Crush on You
Food For Thought
- Tasting through Your Nose
- Some Like it Hot
- Wilting a Cucumber
- Too Many Potato Chips!
- Too Salty!
- What Pot?
- Which Boils Faster - Salted or Plain Water?
- Poached Egg Physics
- Salt Versus the Sweet Stuff
- Freezing Salt and Sugar
- The Candy Trap
- The Cookie Test
Green Broccoli and Other Vegetables
- The Vegetable Game
- How to Feed Celery
- Storing Carrots
- No Way to Treat a Lettuce
- Taming an Onion
- Taking the Starch Out of a Potato!
- Potato Race
- Milking a Potato
- Potato Soup
- Why Do Some Vegetables Smell Bad?
- Keeping of the Green
- Looking Good but Feeling Rotten!
- Cold or Hot
- Keeping a Lid On
- There Must Be a Better Way!
- Colorful Carrot
- About Legumes
- Culling
- Tough Cook, Tender Beans
- Sprouting Beans
Fruit of the Vine and Other Places
- Bite or Bake?
- Bursting an Apple
- Apple in a Cookie Jar
- One end is sweeter!
- How to Ripen a Fruit
- Getting Juice from a Lemon
- Rescuing an Apple
- Not in the Refrigerator
- Powerful Pineapple
- Currying Flavor with a Lime
- How to Make Vinegar
Grain: The Staff of Life
- What is Toast?
- Science for Breakfast
- Why Not Eat Flour Raw?
- Popping Popcorn
- Gluten: The Sticky Story
- Popovers: Gluten in Action
- Hidden Sugar
- Alice's Magic Pill
- The Sugar Eater
- Just Right
- The Pizza Test
- About Baking Soda
- About Baking Powder
- Powder Versus Soda
- Model Muffins
- Weather and Cookies
Making Food Last
- Hocus-Pocus-Raisins
- Freezing Herbs
- To Freeze or Not to Freeze
- Preserving a Pear
- Little Miss Muffet
Talking About Time
- Now and Then
- Time to Wake Up
- The Time of Your Life
- How Long Is a Minute?
Telling Time by the Moon
- Calendar Timeline
- Moon Time
- Different Drummers
- String Calendar
- Perpetual Calendar
- The Wobbly Week
Telling Time by the Sun
- Sundial Timeline
- Where Does My Shadow Go?
- Why Am I Sometimes Very Tall?
- Shadow Watch
- Shadow Temperature
- What's the Angle?
- Hand Dial
- Noon Marks
- Time Zones
Cloudy Day and Night Timetellers
- Cloudy Day Timeline
- Candle Timekeeper
- By A Nose!
- Water Clock
- Having It Both Ways
- A Knotty Problem
- Hourglass Timekeepers
- Invent Your Own Clock
Telling Time by the Stars
- Star Timeline
- Cereal Box Planetarium
- The Sky As Compass
- Star Map
- Some Timetelling Stars
- Star Time
Mechanical Clocks
- Mechanical Clock Timeline
- Yo-Yo Clock
- Get in Gear
- Why Clocks Count to Twelve
- Jewel As Cushions
- Pendulum Clocks
- Railroad Timetable
- Daylight Savings Time
- International Date Line
Super Clocks
- Super Clock Timeline
- Electric Clocks
- Make an Electric Motor
- Charged!
- Coin Battery
- Quartz Crystal Clocks
- The Piezoelectric Effect
- Digital Clocks
- Glowing in the Dark
- Timing the Past: The Radioactive Clock
- Atomic Clocks
- Time Machines - and More
Under Ground
- Rock and Roll
- It's a Dirty Job...
- Soak It Up
- Deeper and Deeper
- Nutrients Away
- Making Bricks
- A Crystal Garden
- From Dust to Dust
- Erosion Explosion
- Stem the Tide
- Did You Know?
- Compact and Loose
- Well, Well, Well
- From Shore to Shore
- More than You Know
- Ocean Motion
- You Crack Me Up!
- Drip, Drip, Drip
- Don't Rain on My Parade
- Acid Soil
- Did You Know?
Plenty of Plants
- Hey, What's Inside?
- Help Me Out
- Swell Time
- Top to Bottom
- A Growing Enterprise
- Hawaiian Harvest
- Green Highways
- The Name Game
- Water In, Water Out
- Don't Crowd Me
- Breathe Deeply
- Follow That Light
- Hanging On
- See Me Grow
- Flower Power
- A Powerful Force
- Hold That Mold
- My Bud-Bud-Buddy
- Adopt a Tree
- Plants Breathe, Too
- Did You Know?
- I'm Impressed
Wonderful Wildlife
- Feathered Friends
- Well Fed
- Feed Me, I'm Yours!
- Woodside Restaurant
- World's Greatest Birdfood
- Home Sweet Home
- Look Ma, No Hands!
- Worm World
- Creepy Crawlers
- The Ants Go Marching...
- Cricket Critters
- Web Warriors
- Net Gain
- Mealworm Magic
- Bee Home, Be Careful
- Sea Shrimp at the Seashore
- Can't See Me!
- I'm All Yours!
- Track record
- Sound Off
- Did You Know?
Ecosystems Near and Far
- Life in a Square
- Houses and Homes
- Happy Habitat
- A Simple Community
- My Own Backyard
- Bag of Bananas
- It's Absolutely Degrading!
- Did You Know?
Nature Problems to Solve
- A Plethora of Pollution
- Eggs Over easy
- Oil Change
- Not in My Air!
- A Band of Bands
- Acid from the Skies
- That Cookie is "Mine"
- Gumming up the Works
- Did You Know?
- Making a Difference
You're on the Air
- Ruler's Uprising
- Blowhard
- Let's Wing It!
- Foiled Again!
- Oddballs
- High Rollers: A Big Wind!
- Whirlybird
- Twirly-Whirlies
- Rotor Motor
- An American Yank
- I'm Banking On You!
- Meter-Made
- Tailspin
- Flap-Happy
- Flight Pattern
- What's All the Flap About?
- Forward March
- A "Prop-er" Engine: A Wheel Deal!
Traveling Bags: They're High and Mighty
- Airbag Balancing Act
- Toy Balloons and Old Bags: Still Rising to the Occasion
- Spinning Wheel: It's Wheel Science at Work!
A Matter of Gravity
- Cure-Ball Trajectory
- Spooling Around
- Weight Lifter: Stringing You Along!
- The Big Three: Mercury, Jupiter, Neptune
- Orbiter II: Operation Jupiter
- The Big Three: Countdown!
- Orbiter III: Operation Neptune
- I Get Around
- Slam Dunk
- Gumdrop
- Balance Bean and Airheads
- Flight: Up in the Air?
- Clipped Wings
- Our Fantastic Mini-Box Kite
- Build a Simple Kite! It's a Breeze!
- Hightail It to the Bridle Party
Exploration in Outer Space? Out of This World!
- Signs from Space: An Emblematic Concern
- Reentry Splashdown
- Moonscape I: Mark-It Research
- Moonscape II: A Heavy Hitter
- Moonscape III: Making a Good Impression
- Moving Picture
- Plan-It Plus
- Plan-It!
- Shuttle Wrap-Up: A Closed Case!
- Thermal Underwear: A Heated Problem
- Travel Agent
- Space Food: Can't Keep It Down!
- Man Your Station
- So You Want to be an Astronaut
- Designer Craft
Rocketry: The Three R's (Ready! Reaction! Replay!)
- Rocket Scientists Don't Fuel Around
- Designing a Rocket
- Shuttled About
- Line Item
- Booster Shot
- Completely Exhausted
- Four Going Retro
- Retrorocket I: Watch the Tube!
- Retrorocket II: A Perfect Roll Model
- Retrorocket III: Bully for You!
- Retrorocket IV: You're Canceled!
- Forging Retro