Exploratorium Snacks
About this resource
- Appropriate grades
- 3–12
- Subjects
- science (general, biology and life science, chemistry, meteorology, physics and physical science, technology and innovation), teaching methods (demonstrations and modeling, experiential learning, project-based learning)
- Provider
- Exploratorium Museum
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“These pages are full of Snacks...but they're not the kind you eat. They're the kind you can learn from and have fun with. Exploratorium Science Snacks are miniature versions of some of the most popular exhibits at the Exploratorium. Science snacks are miniature science exhibits that teachers can make using common, inexpensive, easily available materials. By using Snacks in their classrooms, teachers can climb out of the textbooks and join their students in discovering science for themselves.”
Here is just a sampling of some of the fun exhibits you can set up in your classroom, library, home, and more!
- Balancing Ball: Suspend a ball in a stream of air.
- Bernoulli Levitator: Suspend an object in air by blowing down on it.
- Hot Spot: You can focus the invisible light from an electric heater.
- Bridge Light: A thin layer of air trapped between two pieces of Plexiglas? produces rainbow-colored interference patterns.
- Cheshire Cat: Make a friend disappear, leaving only a smile behind.
