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?
Hands-on Activities
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 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?
Hands-on Activities
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?
Hands-on Activities
Things are heating up! Explore the temperature change that occurs in an exothermic reaction and the role of catalysts is this chemistry activity.
What are curds and whey?
Hands-on Activities
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?
Hands-on Activities
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?
Hands-on Activities
Learn about the chemical reaction that happens between acid rain and limestone.
What causes ocean currents?
Hands-on Activities
Create a model of ocean currents and learn how currents are formed.
Universal Coordinated Time
Backgrounders
Today, you know it's the same time everywhere in your time zone thanks to Universal Coordinated Time. But when humans used the Sun to tell time, they couldn’t tell time precisely.
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!
Is feeling always believing?
Hands-on Activities
Get your hands cold for science and explore the topic of sensory adaptation.