Iron Science Teacher Greatest Hits
Check out the best of the Exploratorium's Iron Science Teacher competition, which showcases science teachers as they devise classroom activities using a particular ingredient—an everyday item such as a plastic bag, a milk carton, or a nail.
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What can you learn with a balloon? Cheer on educators as they use balloons to show how the air we breathe changes the pitch of our voices, investigate the relationship between pressure and volume of a gas, model what happens during childbirth, and reveal how party debris can impact our environment.
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What can you learn with a lightbulb? Cheer on educators as they use lights to track moving objects, explore how living things make light, measure salinity in San Francisco Bay, and show how to light an incandescent lightbulb if the glass cover is broken.
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What can you learn with golden things? Celebrate the Exploratorium’s 50th anniversary as educators use golden things to investigate acids and bases, demonstrate light-mixing, explain fish bladders, and attempt to turn lead into gold.
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What can you learn with breakfast foods? Cheer on educators as they use breakfast foods to explain why Cheerios don’t get lonely, model how things move in and out of cells, demonstrate what happens after you eat, and show how the volume of a gas depends on its temperature.
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What can you learn with air? Cheer on educators as they use compressed air to demonstrate how clouds form, blast a ping pong ball through an aluminum can, feel the true weight of the atmosphere, and levitate a human.
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