What makes soil hard and compacted?
Hands-on Activities
Explore how walking on soil changes how water soaks into the ground and why that matters to gardeners and farmers.
What speeds up a chemical reaction?
Hands-on Activities
Learn about the role of yeast in this fun decomposition reaction.
What uses electricity?
Hands-on Activities
Take a tour of different rooms in your home. Which items in each room use electricity? How do you know they use electricity?
What would happen if a meteor hit Earth?
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Explore the effects of asteroid impacts in this hands on activity.
Which materials bounce?
Hands-on Activities
Balls go up and down. But what makes for a good ball? Find out by exploring which materials bounce.
What is immiscibility?
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Creating mixture of liquids can be very useful, but why do some liquids not mix well? Learn what causes liquids to be immiscible.
What are curds and whey?
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It starts with curds and whey! Explore the basic chemistry behind making cheese in this hands on activity.
What are the best materials to use for cleaning water?
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Water is a precious natural resource. What happens if it gets polluted? Learn how water can be cleaned with this hands-on activity?
What are the effects of acid rain on rocks?
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Learn about the chemical reaction that happens between acid rain and limestone.
What causes ocean currents?
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Create a model of ocean currents and learn how currents are formed.
What do magnets do?
Hands-on Activities
Have fun discovering what magnets can pick up in this hands on activity.
What happens when acids and bases mix?
Hands-on Activities
Learn about acid-base reactions. Make you own pH indicator and test it with different solutions.
What happens when we mix liquids?
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Mix it up! What happens when you mix different liquids? Learn about the properties of liquids as you get mixing.
What is an exothermic reaction?
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Things are heating up! Explore the temperature change that occurs in an exothermic reaction and the role of catalysts is this chemistry activity.
Is a green apple always green?
Hands-on Activities
What does light have to do with colour? Observe some colourful fruit under different conditions to learn why we see the colours we see!