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Learn about friction – use a pencil to pick up thousands of grains of rice. (And no, this won’t take hundreds of years.)
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The Digital Bits Science Labs are fun science experiments for young children. Kids, make sure you have an adult's permission before trying any of these science experiments.
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Science Experiments for Kids, Parents and Teachers
Pick up thousands of rice grains with a pencil
Learn about air pressure from a leaky bottle
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A leaky bottle can teach how air pressure works, and how strong air pressure is – It can stop water from flowing!
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Build a CD spinner and learn color combinations
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See what colors combine to form other colors. Make a CD spinner to improve the testing, giving you a color combiner that can be reused with any color you want.
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Build a balloon-powered mini-hovercraft
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A hovercraft works because of air pressure: it uses a motor to create a cushion of air. The hovercraft floats on this cushion, allowing it to move over land and water.
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How to join and separate two streams of water – surface tension in action
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Surface tension is a special attribute of water. When water is exposed to air, it forms a thin “skin” that keeps the water together. This is how some bugs skim over a water’s surface: surface tension keeps them from sinking into the water.
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How to separate salt and pepper
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This experiment shows how to separate pepper and salt using a balloon and static electricity.
Move a stream of water with a balloon and static electricity
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You can direct the flow of water without touching it. All you need is a little static electricity.
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Learn the basics of static electricity and electron transfer
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Static electricity is the transfer of electrons from one material to another. You can see the effects of static electricity using balloons.
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Food coloring fireworks with oil-water separation
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Oil and water don’t mix. Putting food coloring in oil, and letting it slowly settle into a glass of water will create “water fireworks”, little streamers of color cruising down through the water.
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Energy transfer experiment and super-ball-bouncing
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This experiment shows the concept of energy transfer, how kinetic energy can be transferred from one object to another. It also demonstrates a basic concept of Einstein’s E=mc2 equation, about mass-energy equivalence.
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