Below is a summary of the science experiment or activity blog posts, organized by topic.
Biology
Mycology (Fungi)
- Making a spore print
- Characteristics
- Decomposition Experiment
Ecology
What’s Under a Rock?- Exploring a habitat
Botany
- Make an algal collection
- Investigate food chains
- Investigate how humans use algae for food
- Algae produce oils that can be used for biofuel
Mosses, Ferns, Liverworts and Horsetails: Science Activities
- Identification
- Searching for Spores
- Moss habitats
Carrots (scroll to bottom for a link and experiment idea.)
Extract DNA from Strawberries and Bananas
Trees:
- Tree Transpiration
- How far does the water have to travel from roots to top of the tree?
Experiments with Tree Leaves:
Putting the leaves back on the trees- leaf identification
Fall leaf color chromatography
- Why Spines?
- Waxy Coating
General Zoology (Animals)
- Fainting goats
- Identification
- Frog songs
- Eat or be eaten
Ornithology (Birds)
- bird beaks
- feeding
- drinking
- make a bird craft
- where rainforest birds live
Ocean and Shore Animals
Investigate an animal (sea slug) that can make its own food
- fish anatomy
- moving through water
Science with Pets
- Identification/Classification of Rodents
- Food/Nutrition
- Making Houses and Toys
- Animal Behavior
- Mouse Development
Arthropods (Insects and Their Relatives)
Experiments with Isopods - pillbugs or rolypolies)
Entomology (Insects)
Insects and Their Relatives Part 1
- anatomy of various arthopod groups
Insects and Their Relatives Part 2.
Characteristics of the five most common orders:
- Coleoptera
- Lepidoptera
- Diptera
- Hymenoptera
- Hemiptera
- Gardening for bees
- Honey bees and water
- Honey bee communication and dances
- Bee nests
More about honey and honey bees
- swarming
- honey
- how honey bees keep warm
Where do insects go in the winter?
- Ant anatomy
- Ant pheromones
- Ant life cycles and ant nests (at Wild About Ants)
- Butterfly anatomy
- Butterfly metamorphosis
- Raising butterflies
- Making a butterfly craft
- Butterfly gardening
Human Biology
Experiments with the senses of taste and smell
- Model cell
- Cheek cell under microscope
Genetics
Extract DNA from Strawberries and Bananas
Chemistry
- Shape-memory alloys
- Shape memory polymers
- UV beads
- Density
- A Density Column
- Elephant’s toothpaste
- Acids and Bases
- Using chemicals to make light
- Glowing under ultraviolet light
- Light sticks
- Day-Glo
Iodine Starch Test and Plastic Bag Permeability Experiment
The Chemistry of Rust (Oxidation)
Physics
Astronomy
Activities having to do with hunting for planets outside the solar system.
- Make a rainbow
- Activity: Make your own spectrometer from a cereal box.
- The Doppler Effect
Investigate the amount of light pollution and how it effects how we see the stars at night
Exploring Light and Its Relatives Part 1 (Electromagnetic Spectrum)
Exploring Light and Its Relatives Part 2 (Electromagnetic Spectrum)
Experiments With Water
- Ice spikes
- Ice cube rescues
- Freezing and thawing water
- Floating and sinking
- dry ice
Boats and Floating
How long can a paper boat float?
Results of paper boats
Can you make a boat travel across a bathtub without touching it?
Why do they float?
Movement of water in small containers
General Physics
Earth Science
Geology
Metamorphic Rocks, Crystals and Fossils
Rock Around the World -get your rock identified
- Test sand samples with a magnet
- Make sand
Meteorology – Weather
Does building shape influence damage level by hurricanes?
