Have fun learning about science with these cool light games. Enjoy a range of interactive activities that will help you understand light sources, reflections, shadows, and how humans see. Try this fun science game for kids and enjoy experimenting with light while learning about shadows and the sun. Learn about how we see and enjoy the challenge of illuminating a range of different objects using light and mirrors. Understand the difference between a light source and a reflection with this cool science game for kids.
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To determine how far away the lightning storm is from you, count the seconds between the flash and the crack. Watch for the flash of lightning from a safe location.
Time how long it is before you hear the thunder. Divide the number of seconds by 5. The answer is the approximate number of miles away. For example, if the thunder rumbles 10 seconds after the lightning flash, then it is about 2 miles 3. All rights reserved. Personality Quizzes. Hang the snowflake in the jar.
Let sit overnight; remove. Learn more: Martha Stewart. What you need: Frozen baking soda, cold water, vinegar, squirt bottles. What to do: Start by mixing two parts baking soda with one part water to make fluffy, moldable snowballs. Then, pour vinegar into squirt bottles and let kids squirt their snowballs.
The reaction between the baking soda and vinegar will cause the snowballs to fizz and bubble. For a snow avalanche, pour vinegar into a tub, then drop a snowball in! Learn more: Growing a Jeweled Rose. What to do: Make a paper pinwheel! Follow the easy, step-by-step directions here. What you need: One large blue recycle bag, one empty plastic container such as a yogurt or sour cream tub, clear packing tape, string or yarn, ribbons or streamers to decorate.
What to do: Make a windsock. Start by cutting the rim off the plastic tub. Wrap the edge of the bag around the rim and secure it with tape. Using a hole punch, make a hole in the bag just below the plastic ring. Tie a string through the hole and attach to a post or high railing. Learn more: The Chaos and the Clutter. What you need: Paper cup, pencil, straw, pin, paper plate, construction paper scraps. Poke a sharpened pencil through the bottom of a paper cup. Insert a pin through the middle of a drinking straw and into the eraser of the pencil.
Make a cut approximately 1 inch deep on each end of the straw, making sure to go through both sides of the straw. Cut small squares or triangles of construction paper and slip one into each end of the straw. Place your wind vane onto a paper plate or piece of paper with the directions marked. Learn more: Education. What you need: Five 3-oz.
Take 1 paper cup which will be the center of your anemometer and use a paper punch to punch 4 equally spaced holes about half an inch below the rim. Push a sharpened pencil through the bottom of the cup so that the eraser rests in the middle of the cup. Push 1 drinking straw through the hole in one side of the cup and out the other side. Insert the other straw through the opposite holes so that they form a crisscross inside the cup.
Push a pin through the intersection of the straws and into the eraser. For each of the other 4 cups, punch a hole on opposite sides of the cup about half an inch down. To assemble: Push 1 cup onto the end of each straw, making sure that all of the cups are facing the same direction. The anemometer will rotate with the wind. It does not need to be pointed in the wind for use.
For an explanation of how to calculate wind velocity, click here. What you need: One 2-liter bottle, Sharpie, stones, water, scissors, ruler, tape.
What to do: Create a rain gauge! Start by cutting away the top third of the 2-liter plastic bottle and put it to the side. Pack a few stones at the bottom of the bottle. Pour water in until just above the stone level. Draw a scale on a piece of masking tape with the help of the ruler and paste it on the side of the bottle so you can start counting just above the current water line. Invert the top of the bottle and place it into the bottom half to act as a funnel. Leave bottle outside to capture rain.
Learn more: News What you need: Photo sensitive paper, various objects such as leaves, sticks, paper clips, etc. What to do: Make sun prints! Place the paper, bright blue side up, in a shallow tub. Remove the objects from the paper and the paper from the tub. Soak the paper in water for 1 minute. As the paper dries, the image will sharpen. Learn more: Steve Spangler Science. What you need: A dry, empty frozen-juice can or coffee can with lid removed, latex balloon, rubber band, tape, 2 drinking straws, card stock.
What to do: This DIY barometer starts by cutting off the stiff band of the balloon. Stretch the balloon over the top of the juice can. Secure a rubber band around the balloon to hold it securely. Tape the end of the drinking straw to the center of the balloon surface, making sure it hangs off to one side.
Fold the card stock in half vertically and make hash marks every quarter inch. Set barometer right next to the measurement card. As the external air pressure changes, it will cause the balloon to bend inward or outward at the center. The tip of the straw will move up or down accordingly. Take pressure readings 5 or 6 times a day. Learn more: Science Fair Projects.
What you need: Clear plastic bottle, water, rubbing alcohol, clear plastic drinking straw, modeling clay, food coloring. Add a few drops of food coloring. Put the straw inside the bottle without letting it touch the bottom.
Seal the neck of the bottle with the modeling clay to keep the straw in place.
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