Older Students (age 11-16)

November 28, 2012

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

1. Sunburn, Ozone Holes, and Super-White Teeth: Experiment with ultraviolet light to see if you can keep it from going through a window.
2. Can You Hear Me Now? Try to change a cardboard box so that a cell phone will not ring inside it.
3. Creepy Bendy Metal: Try to use weird metal pieces to make a light turn itself on and off over and over.
4. Are You Cold Yet?: What is the coldest place in the universe and how cold is it there?
5. Why is Sky Blue?: Is it sad? There must be some way we can test the air to see why it looks blue.
6. Calories in Food: You get to burn up all sorts of food in a misguided attempt to measure its calories.
7. Spiral Flyers: Gravity makes things fall straight down… we’ll try to make things fall in a spiral.
8. Match Rockets: Modify a match, cook it, and see if it will take off and fly across the room.
9. Acoustic Speakers: Try to make sound come out of a copper wire.
10. Laser Music Transmission: See what happens when a laser pen is attached to a radio and shines on a photo cell.