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Easy Homopolar Motor | Science Project
In this science project, make a homopolar motor using simple parts, and determine how changing the diameter of the magnet affects the rate of rotation.
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Car Aerodynamics: How to Reduce Drag | Science Project
Conduct a science project to improve airflow and reduce drag on your car.
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Make an Arduino RC Boat from a Tupperware Container | Science Project
Design and build your own Arduino radio-controlled (RC) boat in this fun engineering project.
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Make an Arduino ROV (Remotely Operated Vehicle) | Engineering Project
Design and build your own underwater robot in this engineering project.
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Build a Walking Robot with a Single Motor | Science Project
Design and build a simple walking robot with a single DC motor in this fun engineering project.
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Super Simple Neural Network Explanation | Machine Learning Science Project
Learn how a perceptron works and program a simple example in Python in this artificial intelligence science project.
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Baking Soda and Vinegar Rockets | Science Project
Baking Soda Vinegar Rocket Science Project: Determine the correct ratio of baking soda to vinegar that will result in the highest launch of a plastic film canister.
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Arduino DC Motor Control with Analog Joysticks
Learn to control DC motors using analog joysticks and an Arduino.
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Build a Radio-Controlled (RC) Arduino Robot | Science Project
Build a radio-controlled Arduino robot in this fun engineering projects.
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Do a Physics Simulation Science Project
Use an online physics simulator to compare the real-world behavior of a physical device like a catapult, ball run, or Rube Goldberg machine to a computer simulation in this fun science project.
Curated Video
Idioms, Adages, and Proverbs
“Idioms, Adages, and Proverbs” is a video that explains the meanings of common idioms, adages, and proverbs.
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Make a Battery with Coins | Science Experiment
Make a battery with pennies, nickels, salt, and vinegar in this fun science experiment! This type of battery is also called a voltaic pile. You can use a multimeter to measure the voltage and current produced by your battery, and even...
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The Wagon Wheel Effect | Optical Illusion Science Experiment
Have you ever seen a video where it looked like a car's wheels or a helicopter's blades were spinning backwards? This optical illusion is called the wagon wheel effect, named after old movies where it looked like wagon wheels were...
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DIY Wind Turbine Science Experiment
This video shows how to build your own wind turbine using household materials and how you can use it for a science project. Written instructions, including a complete materials list, are available on the Science Buddies website:...
Physics Girl
How to float a ping pong ball on air - The Coandă Effect
Widely explained using the Bernoulli principle, this phenomenon is actually dominated by the Coanda effect.
NASA
Gravity Assist: Deep Oceans in Deep Space, with Morgan Cable
Some of the most fascinating targets in the search for life in our solar system are moons of giant planets. Morgan Cable, an astrobiologist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, discusses these wondrous worlds, the exotic locations where...
Physics Girl
Crazy tic tac bounce!? | EVERYDAY MYSTERIES
Tic tacs have the strangest behavior when you bounce them on a very hard surface. What is going on?! Find out the physics.
Science Buddies
Potato Battery Science Experiment
How do you make a battery from a potato? How much electricity can you produce? Does the amount of electricity change if you make a parallel versus serial circuit? Explore these questions and more with a potato battery science experiment.
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How Does an Electromagnet Work?
You may be familiar with permanent magnets—the kind that hang on a refrigerator. But did you know that other magnets, called electromagnets, can be turned on and off? When turned on, electromagnets act just like permanent magnets, but if...
Visual Learning Systems
Your Science Fair Project: What Will You Learn From a Science Fair Project
The scientific method is the foundation of work for scientists. In this video the scientific method is explained in detail serving as the basis for your science fair project. The process of creating a science fair project along with...
Curated OER
How to Blow Up a Balloon With Baking Soda & Vinegar
A simple combination of baking soda and vinegar creates enough carbon dioxide to blow up a balloon! It's an awesome illustration of chemical reactions for upper elementary learners, or use it with slightly older scientists to introduce...
Curated OER
Table Top Trebuchet
How cool would it be to build a trebuchet 1/40th the size of one that would have been used to knock down a castle wall? Build this project with middle or high schoolers at any level (varying the information provided for each), and have a...
Steve Spangler Science
CO2 Sandwich - Sick Science! #095
There's not much to this video. Steve Spangler and his twin sons visit 9 News and perform the classic chemical reaction between vinegar and baking soda to produce carbon dioxide gas. Where the value is in this video clip is that they set...
Curated OER
Science Magic - Vanishing Water
Make water disappear! Get your learners excited about the various types of polymers. Simple, yet mesmerizing enough to use with all age ranges.