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Noisy Coin in a Balloon Experiment

Pre-K - 8th
It is just fun to spin a coin in a balloon. But we used a 7-sided 20p coin that made some interesting noise.
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How to Play Music on Glasses with Water

Pre-K - 8th
Exploring new musical instruments with Alex.
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How to Mix Primary Colours to Get Secondary Colours

Pre-K - 8th
A fun demonstration how the primary colours mix and form the secondary colours. Thanks to the fact that water doesn't mix with oil we can observe how primary colours separate back into layers after mixing. For this activity water is...
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How to Make a Lung Model with a Balloon

Pre-K - 8th
Here is a quick demonstration how lungs work with a plastic bottle and two balloons I have prepared for Alex. When we pull knotted balloon, more space inside the bottle is created. To fill that space more air is sucked in thru the red...
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How to Make Colours Appear from Words

Pre-K - 8th
How cool is this activity with magically appearing colours from words! You would need regular markers, a permanent black marker, paper towel and water.
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How to Make a Lemon Battery

Pre-K - 8th
When you run out of batteries, but you have a few lemons at home. To start, we put copper coins and galvanized nails on different sides of lemons. Then we connected the nail to the copper coin on the next lemon in a line with a wire....
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Science Experiment: How Clouds Hold Water

Pre-K - 8th
Max is learning the very basic concept of how clouds hold water and when they become too heavy it starts to rain, while practising fine motor skills and eye–hand coordination. For this activity we used clear water, shaving foam and...
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Exploring Black Markers with Chromatography

Pre-K - 8th
We are using a scientific method called chromatography to see what colours have been used by different manufacturers to make their black markers. Surprisingly black colour hides a bunch of bright colours. To take the experiment a bit...
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Science Experiment: Spinning Balloon

Pre-K - 8th
If you have a balloon and a straw at home, you can make this fun spinning balloon.
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How to Make a Lava Lamp

Pre-K - 8th
It’s just mesmerising to watch water beads lava lamp powered by Alka-Seltzer.
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Science Experiment: How Strong is Spaghetti

Pre-K - 8th
Checking with Alex how strong spaghetti actually is. First, we easily break just one piece but have a look how easy it is to break a bunch of them.
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Science Experiment: Funnels

Pre-K - 8th
This is fun funnel experiment that proves that an empty bottle isn't, in fact, empty and to fill it with water we need to make sure that air can escape. If a funnel is properly sealed to a bottle and a lot of water is poured into it at...
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Science Experiment: Egg in a Bottle

Pre-K - 8th
Classic egg in a bottle experiment turned upside down. We used hard boiled egg, birthday cake candles and a bottle with wide neck.
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Science Experiment: Color Mixing

Pre-K - 8th
We do different types of activities with boys, but mixing is Max's most favourite thing. Here Max is mixing Yellow and Blue colours with a help of baking soda and vinegar reaction.
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Bubble Science Experiments

Pre-K - 8th
We mixed dish soap with water in a big container to experiment with 3-dimensional shapes and bubbles.
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Outdoor Activity: Anti-Gravity Water

Pre-K - 8th
Alex knows that every time we do an experiment the result should be different from what he normally expects to happen. This time he said that water would not spill if we turn the cup upside down. So I asked him to do just that and water...
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Stroop Effect: Tricky Colours Mental Workout

Pre-K - 8th
Checking if interference between the contradicting information can cause problems for Alex to do a simple task - naming the colours! Try doing it yourselves! Pause the video and name colours, not the words.
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How to Make a Pythagoras Cup

Pre-K - 8th
This experiment shows how Pythagoras Cup works. A long time ago Pythagoras made this cup (also known as a Greedy Cup), that empties itself if too much drink is poured.
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How to Make a Glass Object Disappear

Pre-K - 8th
Don't trust your eyes! If you cannot see it, it doesn't mean that it is not there. When you place a Pyrex stir rod in the vegetable oil, it disappears. The secret here is that vegetable oil has nearly the same index of refraction as...
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Science Experiment: Static Electricity

Pre-K - 8th
Isn't it a magic when you can move a pencil without touching it?! We are exploring the magical world of static electricity.
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Simple Music Science Experiment

Pre-K - 8th
When Alex played music this way no one could hear it but him. To change the sound he pulled the string a bit tighter or slid hand that was holding the string to change the length of it.
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How to Poke a Soap Bubble Without Bursting It

Pre-K - 8th
We already know how to poke a balloon without popping it, but this time we are making a hole in a bubble. We have prepared a bubble solution by mixing water and washing up liquid, made a frame from a wire and tied a piece of a thread in...
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Science Experiment: Keep Ice Longer

Pre-K - 8th
Do you know how to keep ice for longer? Today we are exploring what materials delay melting of the ice better. The fact that clothes keep us warm confuses some children in thinking that the more materials we wrap around an...
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5 Food Science Experiments

Pre-K - 8th
You should not play with food, but you must do these mind-blowing experiments with it to discover electricity in lemon, metal in corn flakes and much more.