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Divided Attention

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Institute for Inquiry: Examining the Art of Science Education
Institute for Inquiry: Examining the Art of Science Education

Professional development resources for teacher educators.

Collecting soil for Winogradsky Column activity
Bacterial Terrarium

With just mud, paper and an egg, you can grow colonies of multi-hued microbes!

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Blindfolded Walk

Close your eyes – and open your ears.

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Find out how this extreme sport is governed by the principles of momentum, gravity, friction, and centripetal force. Learn skateboarding history, technology, and more!

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Polar Geography

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Science of Sharing Educator Activities
Science of Sharing Educator Activities

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Robo-Car Derby

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The Amazing Water Trick

Do hot water and cold water mix?

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Frog Chorus

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About Antarctica
About Antarctica

The only continent without any countries or government . . .

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Ancient Observatories

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Frames & Materials

What are the best materials for frames? What are the best designs?

Making a Sun Clock
Making a Sun Clock

Before there were clocks, people used shadows to tell time!

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Blood

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Iron Science Teacher
Iron Science Teacher

Each webcast, the Exploratorium staff and teachers demonstrate their science projects and compete for the title of IRON SCIENCE TEACHER!

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Soap Film Interference Model: Introduction

Build a scale model of waves of red and blue light.

Kitchen Sink-o-Pation
Kitchen Sink-o-Pation

Vsit a quirky kitchen where you can compose music with ordinary (and not-so-ordinary) objects.

Chichén Itzá

Explore the ancient knowledge of the Maya, who built sophisticated monuments to the sun.

Everybody Gets Lunch
Everybody Gets Lunch

Sit down for compost tea with a visionary cultivator.

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Plate Tectonics
Plate Tectonics

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Copper Caper
Copper Caper

Watch old pennies turn bright and shiny right before your eyes!

“They Say They Want to Bring Me in Guilty”

How can forensic science become more scientific?

Your Age on Other Worlds
Your Age on Other Worlds

Find out why people who love birthday parties should move to Mercury.

Total Solar Eclipse Zambia 2001
Total Solar Eclipse Zambia 2001
Bird in a Cage: Materials and assembly

Do the Bird in a Cage experiment with some basic materials.

Curveballs
One of the niftiest tricks up the pitcher's sleeve is the ability to make a ball curve.
Doctor Atomic: Commentary on an Opera
Doctor Atomic: Commentary on an Opera

Explore the scientific, historical, and cultural context behind a new opera about the first atomic bomb test.

APE
Fostering Active Prolonged Engagement

APE was a four-year Exploratorium project to explore strategies and tactics to shift the role of visitors from passive recipient of information to active participant in the exhibit experience.

The South Pole(s)
The South Pole(s)

Will the "real" South Pole please stand up?

Candy Around the World
Candy Around the World

What kinds of candy are made and enjoyed in where you live?

Martian Snowflakes
Martian Snowflakes

What do snowflakes look like on Mars?

Illusion Songs
Illusion Songs

A collection of auditory illusions found in indigenous folk practices, popular music, and scientific research.

Seeing
Seeing

What do you really know about what you see?

Brain Explorer
Brain Explorer

Explore the unknown world inside your brain with these fun activities.

Styro Curveball
Thrown For a Curve

Learn to throw a curveball, a slider, or even a screwball by throwing a Styrofoam ball.

Bottle Blast-Off
Bottle Blast-Off

Make a simple rocket and a rocket launcher, and watch a demonstration of how the finished rocket will fly.

Magritte Me at After Dark: Get Surreal
Mobile AR at After Dark

by Rob Rothfarb • February 15, 2011

Take a peek at a set of mobile augmented reality installations that were exhibited at an early After Dark program.

Going Up? Get Fit
Going Up? Get Fit

The 18,000-foot Mt. Parinacota presents some fitness challenges for climbers.

Creating the Campus
Creating the Campus

Explore an interactive map.

Eyeing the Storm: Science and Art of Visualization
Eyeing the Storm: Science and Art of Visualization

From May 20 to June 5 1997, we presented a webcast series exploring the art and science of severe storm visualization.

Picturing the Body
Picturing the Body

Learn about common techniques for peering inside the body in order to diagnose disease and injury.

Total Solar Eclipse China 2008
Total Solar Eclipse China 2008

View the full eclipse visible from China in 2008.

Mars in a Minute: Are There Quakes on Mars?

Are there earthquakes on Mars? Or rather, “marsquakes?" 

Build a Light Island
Light Island
How to build a shop version of an Exploratorium exhibit for investigating light
The Thrill of Submarine Volcanic Exploration
Join a ship studying underwater volcanoes in the Caribbean.

Pi Day isn't just a day—it's a way of life.

Clay Bridges
Clay Bridges

In this activity, students make bridges using an oil-based modeling clay (plasticene).

Institute for Inquiry: Examining the Art of Science Education
Institute for Inquiry: Examining the Art of Science Education

Professional development resources for teacher educators.

Crystal Creations
Crystal Creations

Grow spikes of crystals in the sun.

Outrageous Ooze
Outrageous Ooze

This stuff can't make up its mind -- is it a liquid or a solid?

Kosher Dill Current
Kosher Dill Current

High energy prices got you down? Discover how pickles can ease your troubles.

Light Painting
Light Painting

You can make a light painting with a light source, a darkened room, and a digital camera.

Center of the Universe
Center of the Universe

Where is the Center of the Universe? Here, there, and everywhere.

Scribbling Machines
Scribbling Machines

A Scribbling Machine is a motorized contraption that moves in unusual ways and leaves a mark to trace it's path.

Live Eye on the Earth
Live Eye on the Earth

Want to see where the biggest quakes have been this week? Follow a few of the links below to see what's shaking in your neighborhood and around the world.

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