Station #1 – Static Electricity

• Activity Name: Clinger
  • Description: Students use plastic wrap to attract cereal pieces
  • Materials: Some puffed rice cereal, piece of plastic food wrap, sheet of typing paper
  • Source: HC
• Activity Name: Fun With Static
  • Description: Students watch multiple demonstrations involving static electricity
  • Materials: wool socks, plastic, Styrofoam, glitter, cardstock
  • Source: EO
• Activity Name: Electroscope
  • Description: Students predict what will happen.
  • Materials: an electroscope HC
• LINK: http://science.howstuffworks.com/vdg1.htm

Station #2 – Acids and Bases

• Activity Name: Testing Acids and Bases
  • Description: Students try to guess the pH of different materials and then test them
  • Materials: Liquid Materials (pop, juice, water, cleaning supplies, etc.), pH paper or pH indicator
  • Source: EO
• Activity: Miniature Fire Extinguisher (Putting out a flame)
  • Description: Students make a mini fire extinguisher using vinegar and baking soda
  • Materials: Pop bottle, cork, straw, small jar, tea light or small candle, lighter or matches
  • Source: HC
• * top half of diagram shows the pH scale with common/household liquids of varying pH drawn on at the appropriate marking; below, underneath the acidic end of the scale, an acidic solution is illustrated with many hydrogen ions (coloured balls with happy faces) crowding around very few hydroxide ions; basic is illustrated with the opposite arrangement; and neutral is illustrated by having equal numbers of the two
• * generalized formula for an acid base reaction

Station #3 – Forensics

• Activity Name: Fingerprinting
  • Description: Students study their fingerprints
  • Materials: Stamp pad, paper
  • Source: EO
• Activity Name: Blood Splatter Analysis
  • Description: Students learn about blood spatter analysis
  • Materials: pre-made fake blood, popsicle sticks, craft paper
  • Source: EO
• LINK: http://science.howstuffworks.com/bloodstain-pattern-analysis.htm

Station #4 – Bristle Bots

• Activity Name: Bristle Bots
  • Description: Students learn about friction and Brownian motion
  • Materials: toothbrush heads, watch batteries, double sided tape, pager motors, testing arena
  • Source: EO

Station #5 – Polymers

• Activity Name: Slime
  • Description: Students will make a polymer slime substance
  • Materials: cups/Ziploc bags, borax solution, white or clear glue
  • Source: EO
• Activity Name: Making Plastic
  • Description: Creating globs of plastic
  • Materials: hot plate, pot, cream, vinegar, spoons
  • Source: EO

Station #6 – Microbiology models

• Activity Name: DNA models
  • Description: Students learn about DNA and make a wearable strand of DNA
  • Materials: beads, gimp
  • Source: EO
• Activity Name: LEGO cells
  • Description: Making plant and animal cells using Lego
  • Materials: Lego
  • Source: EO

Station #7 – Density

• Activity Name: Cartesian Divers
  • Description: Students will learn about water pressure and buoyancy
  • Materials: water bottles, pen lids, plasticine
  • Source: EO
• Activity Name: Lava Lamp
  • Description: Demonstration lava lamp made of oil, water, and salt
  • Materials: Giant graduated cylinder, vegetable oil, water, salt food colouring
  • Source: TI (see end)

Station #8 – Air Pressure & Vacuums

• Activity Name: Magdeburg Spheres
  • Description: Students pick up a cup using a partial vacuum
  • Materials: Two identical cups, aluminum foil, matches, blotting paper
  • Source: HC
• Activity Name: Egg-in-a-bottle
  • Description: Students will learn about vacuums
  • Materials: hard boiled eggs, open mouthed bottles, matches
  • Source: EO
• Activity Name: Bernoulli Spheres (Blown away)
  • Description: Students move two hanging spheres together using Bernoulli’s principle
  • Materials: Two spheres (Ping-Pong balls work well), string, tape, straw
  • Source: HC
• Activity Name: Bernoulli Balloons
  • Description: Students ask attendees to estimate how many breathes it’ll take to fill the balloon up
  • Materials: Bernoulli balloons
  • Source: HC
• *a diagram explaining the “H”s and “L”s in a weather map
• *a diagram explaining plane wings and how the Bernoulli effect results in lift

Station #9 – Human Body

• Activity Name: Model Lung (Breathing)
  • Description: Students build a model lung out of balloons and pop bottles
  • Materials: Pop bottle, balloons
  • Source: HC
• Activity Name: Model Eardrum
  • Description: Students make an eardrum
  • Materials: large cups, saran wrap, thick elastic bands, salt
  • Source: EO
• *simplified diagram of lung and thorax
• *simplified diagram of ear

Station #10 – Weather

• Activity Name: Tornado-in-a-bottle
  • Description: Students make a tornado
  • Materials: empty water bottles, food colouring, water, duct tape
  • Source: EO
• Activity Name: Storm-in-a-bottle
  • Description: Students watch sedimentation patterns in a storm settling
  • Materials: water bottles, water, gravel, sand, rocks, dirt
  • Source: EO
• Activity Name: Cloud in a bottle
  • Description: Demo of how clouds form
  • Materials: Pop bottle, match, water (hot)
  • Source: HC
• *diagram explanation the effect of pressure and gas
• LINK: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8AvfXar9zs