Hands-On Science
I started these pages long ago (late 1990s) and haven't updated since 2000. The available resources on the internet have changed immensely since then (e.g. YouTube). Most of the links on the pages have broken, and many of the more spectacular ("DON'T DO THIS AT HOME") videos have disappeared. So I have minimally updated these pages, and don't expect to do much more here.
Background
Since you should be suitably skeptical of getting information from the internet, here are our science credentials:
Susan Wells Rollinson: Carleton College, Chemistry, BA; University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, Organic Chemistry, MS, PhD
Lon Rollinson: California Institute of Technology, Chemical Engineering, BS; University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, Chemical Engineering, MS, PhD
Susan has used most of these experiments and demonstrations with elementary school kids--mostly K through 6th grades. A few have been used with college students. One or two have not been personally tested.
Table of Contents
Physical Science |
Air Pressure Bubbles Chemical Reactions Fire Impact Craters Light Sticks (Chemiluminescence) Recyclable Plastics Slime Sparklers
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Life Science |
Daphnia Toxicology
Seeds Taste & Smell
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Foods (aka Kitchen Chemistry) |
Cabbage Indicator
Candy Chromatography Frozen Colloid (Ice Cream) Glowing Vegetables Iron in Cereal Popcorn Soap Vitamin C Wintergreen Lifesavers (Triboluminescence) Yeast & Sugar DNA Extraction
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References |
A list of general references for performing experiments
and demonstrations with an emphasis on chemistry.
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Susan Wells RollinsonRenovated October 2019. Updated 10/14/19.