Continuing with our study of Forces and Motion, we created “Marble Mazes” to demonstrate gravity, inerita, and momentum. Students designed and created “tilt mazes” and then moved marbles through them using gravity. Did your marble roll too quickly and fly off the maze? That’s because the marble had too much […]
Community Science Workshops
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We see the sun every day, but have you ever tried to directly capture and use the energy it provides? By building simple solar ovens using pizza boxes, black construction paper, foil, and plastic wrap, our students were able to learn about important energy concepts like “reflection” and “absorption” while […]
How do our eyes and brains work together to form images? How can we see colors? Can we trust everything our eyes see? Can we create optical illusions? Can we construct a model of the eye that produces an image? These were some of the questions we explored in our recent […]