Matter and Earth Structure
- Egg into the bottle with fire
- Pop can being smashed in cold water
- Ublek
- Egyptian Heiroglyphics
- Rocket lab
- Cut paper in half over and over again
- Molecule models
- Measurement lab (height, volume, and mass)
- Measuring the density of different objects
- Float or sink lab
- Ocean in a bottle
- Foil boats
- Density demos - backpack, nerf ball, paper clip and cotton balls
- Food coloring diffusion
- Diffusion demos - air freshner
- Smelly balloons
- Expansion of substances - thermometer, Galilean thermometer, ring and ball, hot air balloon
- Floating ice and eggs
- Exansion of chips in a vacuum
- Hot water in 2-liter bottle contraction
- Cartesion Divers
- M & M earth model
- Sediment bottle
Structure of Living Things
- Cells under a microscope - onion, cheek, Elodea
- Cell city
- Potato osmosis
- Egg in salt water
- Virtual frog dissection
- Chicken leg dissection
- Lung model
- Heart model
- Microscope lab - human tissues
- What cells really look like - online powerpoint
Genetics and Heredity
Classification
- Make a classification key
- Classification lab
- Jelly Belly classification
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Physical and Chemical Change
- Boiling water in a paper cup over a fire
- Pendulum lab
- Sprite or Diet Sprite
- Egyptian heiroglyphics
- Shoebox atoms - what's in the black box (making infrences)
- Burning magnesium
- Burning rubbing alcohol
- How many drops of water on a penny?
- Molecule models
- Conduction of electricity in salt water
- Golden pennies
- Dry ice demos
- Burning alcohol in big water bottle
- Sodium reacting with water
- Burning steel wool
- Vinegar and baking soda
- Alka-seltzer lab
- Grain elevator explosion
- Burning alcohol in spray bottle
- Silly putty
- All mixed up lab (separate sand, iron filings, salt, sawdust)
- Phase change lab
- Penny mass lab
- Melting and burning pennies
Biologic Change
- Ecology concentration
- Respiration lab - yeast and sugar
- Breathing into phenolpthalein solution
- Lion king - circle of life
- Energy loss in an ecosystem - pour the pop down the drain
Geologic Change
- Minerals lab
- Rock candy
- Ingeous rock lab
- Sedimentary rock lab (For these labs, you can find the rocks in the great outdoors and bring them in and show them to your parents for extra credit)
- Sand from around the world
- Plate Tectonics model
- Mapping plate tectonics
- Candy quakes
- M&M radioactive dating
- Relative dating problems
- Geologic Timescale
Motion, Force and Energy
- Ping pong ball and beach ball
- Laws of motion demos - skateboard, table cloth, etc.
- Spaghetti Bridges
- Gravity Demos - drop a book and piece of paper
- Mobile
- Lever lab
- Lift someone up with a lever
- Different tools as simple machines
- Mechanical advantage lab
- Bike - how gears work
- Pulley demos
- Catapults
- Energy conversion demos
- Kinetic and Potential energy - Skate park
- Rollercoaster lab with tubing
- Wave simulations
- Light and radiation simulations
- Waves on a slinky and on a rope
- Conduction and covection - boiling water
- Glass silly straws
- Ears and eyes - how they work
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