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Science Snacks to Celebrate Black History

Science Snacks are hands-on, teacher-tested activities that bring explorations of natural phenomena into the classroom and home. These Science Snacks showcase Black artists, scientists, inventors and thinkers whose work aids or expands our understanding of the phenomena explored in each Snack.

Science activity that produces musical sounds only you can hear
Secret Bells

Create a sound system for music only you can hear.

Science activity to observe shapes floating inside your own eye
Floaters

See shadowy shapes floating inside your own eye.

Science activity that demonstrates the force of pressure in a vortex
Vortex

Whirling water creates a tornado in a bottle.

Science activity that explores series and parallel circuits
Circuit Workbench

Learn about simple circuits with a board you build yourself.

Science activity that investigates the structure of the retina
Seeing Your Retina

Keep an eye on your retinal blood supply network.

Science activity that investigates the pupil
Pupil

Your pupil changes size to control how much light enters your eye.

Science activity that explores the properties of soap films and relates them to the properties of plasma membranes
Cellular Soap Opera

Use soap film to model a cell membrane.

Science activity that demonstrates proprioception
Proprioception

We know where our bodies are even with our eyes closed.

Science activity demonstrating the blind spot phenomenon
Blind Spot

To see or not to see.

Science activity to explore a developing plant embryo
See Inside a Seed

Examine the baby plants inside the seeds we eat.

Science activity that demonstrates resonance in a musical instrument
Straw Oboe

Two lips make sound.

Science activity to make a mini indoor compost pile
Tiny Hot Pile

Microbial decomposers heat things up.