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How to Suck a Water Balloon into a Bottle

Pre-K - 8th
Alex tried to put filled with water balloon inside the jar, but he couldn't. So we heated the air inside the jar and it expanded. Once we put the water balloon on top it, the flame went out and the air in the jar started cooling and...
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How to Pierce Potato with a Straw

Pre-K - 8th
We are experimenting by piercing a potato with a sharp pencil and a straw. Do you know what would pass through easily?
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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 Drawings Float with a Magic Water Marker

Pre-K - 8th
Subscribe to my channel and wait for Alex’s space adventure floating drawing! To make your art creation float you need just white board makers, a plate and some water. I have seen a few videos about this technique but they all seemed to...
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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 Marble Run with Foil

Pre-K - 8th
This DIY toy is from the time I was a child. It is simple but it could blow the mind a person who doesn't know how it is made. Alex was looking for magnets to explain why it moves that way. All you need to make one is a piece of kitchen...
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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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How to Make a Balancing Butterfly

Pre-K - 8th
We have made a butterfly with Max from a piece of hard paper that can balance on a tip of a pencil. Now Max is looking for magnets to explain why it doesn't fall.
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Science Experiment: Hot and Cold Air

Pre-K - 8th
Heating up the air inside a plastic bottle with hot water and then cooling it down with cold to see how balloon reacts.
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Gel Balls Activities for Toddlers and Preschoolers

Pre-K - 8th
If clear gel balls are submerged in water, you cannot see them. It is how Alex did his trick in the previous video and it is what makes this activity so fun for Max.
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Science Experiment: Water and Plastic Bottles

Pre-K - 8th
Experimenting with plastic bottles, straws and water
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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 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 Lava Lamp

Pre-K - 8th
It’s just mesmerising to watch water beads lava lamp powered by Alka-Seltzer.
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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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How to Make a Balance Scale

Pre-K - 8th
Why not to start a solid foundation in physics in a single afternoon activity learning to balance counterweights? DIY tutorial for making scale using hanger and plastic bottles.
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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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Science Trick: Cinnamon and Water

Pre-K - 8th
Changing the flavour of a classic pepper experiment by using cinnamon instead. The fact is you can use any spices here as long as they float.
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Science Experiment: Candle and Water

Pre-K - 8th
This is an impressive but simple experiment for children. We did it with Alex about two years ago, so it was Max's turn now. But this time I added a bit of a twist though. I spread food colouring on the bottom of tea candle, lighted it...
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Science Experiment: Baking Soda and Vinegar Balloon

Pre-K - 8th
This is how my little scientist inflates balloons!
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Turning Old Coal Mines into Eco-Construction Incubators

6th - Higher Ed
Base 11/19, the last mine shaft in Loos-en-Gohelle, was transformed into an eco-construction milestone in the early 2000s. The CD2E organization, based at this site, supports over 600 eco-enterprises in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region,...