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Use a little bit of math to make a bonus accessory for your globe of the earth—an atmosphere, to scale.
What color is water? Look through a clear tube to find out.
After looking at something bright, such as a lamp or a camera flash, you may continue to see an image of that object when you look away. This lingering visual impression is called an afterimage.
Use cubes of agar to model how diffusion occurs in cells. By observing cubes of different sizes, you can discover why larger cells might need extra help to transport materials.
Use aluminum foil, salt water, and activated charcoal to construct a simple battery strong enough to power a small motor or light.
“Ambiguous” objects provide visual input that your brain can interpret in more than one way. With this Snack, you can make an ambiguous three-dimensional cube from drinking straws.
Short pieces of chenille stem inside a box look like a random jumble, but when viewed in the proper perspective, and without normal depth perception, they look like a chair!
A reflection of your right side can appear to be your left side. Try this activity and you'll appear to perform many gravity-defying stunts.
In this simple exploration, a coiled phone cord slows the motion of a wave so you can see how a single pulse travels and what happens when two traveling wave pulses meet in the middle.
Explore how your immune system seeks out and disables pathogens, and prepares your body for future attacks.
Una simple pila de bloques de madera demuestra que un objeto en reposo permanecerá en reposo al menos que una fuerza haga que se mueva.
Envuelve una cuerda alrededor de tu cabeza y púlsala para hacer música.
What starts out as a cascade of well-mixed granular materials sorts itself into alternating layers of salt and sand.
The Exploratorium, established in 1969, is an internationally renowned museum of art, science, and human perception located in San Francisco, California. Its hundreds of hands-on exhibits are designed to promote science discovery.
The Exploratorium Teacher Institute has supported middle and high school math and science teachers to incorporate hands-on, inquiry-rich experiences into their classrooms since 1984.
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