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Try This!:  Try This! With Paul Doherty and Friends: Dr. Yoji Takikawa (Webcast)
Running Time:
00:20:06
Dr. Paul Doherty scours the globe for the world's greatest science demonstrations. Here he partners with Dr. Yoji Takikawa of the International Christian School in Tokyo. Dr. Takikawa creates at least one new activity every month and has published over 25 books of science activities. Watch this webcast, follow the links to the 'recipes,' then try it yourself!

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Date: March 8, 2001
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): General Science

Keywords: break spaghetti on a scale activity, tensile strength, force, inverse square law, buckling of beams, building science, building engineering, deflect a flame with oxygen activity, magnetism, magnetic forces, magnetic properties of oxygen, paramagnetic, blind experimen


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Iron Science Teacher:  Popsicle Sticks (Webcast)
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1:01:41
Watch as the best teachers on the planet battle it out for the title of Iron Science Teacher. In this zany competition teachers will have ten minutes to create a science activity. This week’s “secret” ingredient: popsicle sticks!

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Date: June 30, 2000
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): General Science

Keywords: activities, contests, experiments, structural reinforcement for earthquakes, building for an earthquake, sheer wall contruction, earthquake retrofitting, thermal postcard, heat siensitive postcard, how lcds work, polarizing lenses, liquid crystals, polarizing film mo


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