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Science Activities

Hungry for fresh, exciting science activities based in amazing phenomena? Science Snacks are hands-on, teacher-tested, and use cheap, available materials.

Science activity that demonstrates smell's effect on taste
Your Sense of Taste

Discover the real taste of candy.

Saving Seeds, Saving Culture
Saving Seeds, Saving Culture

Saving seeds helps preserve the culture of Native American farmers in the American Southwest and northern Mexico.

Zebrafish

A model for heart development

Science activity that demonstrates a visual illusion
Overlapping Spots

Make a bright spot brighter.

Science activity that demonstrates charge in a battery
Hand Battery

Use your skin and different metals to create a battery.

Science activity that explores how waves travel and interact
Anti-Sound Spring

Send waves down a spring to watch them travel and interact.

Remarkable Feets
Remarkable Feets

Learn about the most important piece of equipment-- your feet!

Science activity that uses data to explore natural cycles and unnatural changes in our atmosphere
Our Changing Atmosphere

Explore a famous environmental data set to learn about climate change.

Science activity experimenting with a frozen water balloon
Ice Balloons

Create and examine an ice balloon.

Science activity that demonstrates Bernoulli’s principle by blowing between two empty cans
Uncanny Motion

Blowing between cans makes them roll in mind-blowing ways.

Science activity that demonstrates convection
Convection Currents

Make your own heat waves in an aquarium.

Color Chromatography
Color Chromatography

Discover the secret colors hidden in black ink. With a paper towel, a black marker, and a cup of water, create a rainbow of colors while exploring capillary action and chromatography.

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