by Aurora Lipper | Mar 25, 2013 | Homeschool Science Curriculum Resources, Science Experiments
We’re going to launch a rocket by building up pressure using a chemical reaction. I really like this experiment because it combines chemistry, gas pressure, and Newton‘s laws of physical motion all in one cool experiment. For every action, there is equal and...
by Aurora Lipper | Mar 18, 2013 | Homeschool Science Curriculum Resources, Science Experiments
Mathematically speaking, this particular flying object shouldn’t be able to fly. I mean, it doesn’t even look like an airplane! There are endless variations to this project, including changing the size and number of loops. You can even tape two of these...
by Aurora Lipper | Mar 11, 2013 | Homeschool Science Curriculum Resources, Science Experiments
Want to build a kite in less than 5 minutes? This kite is basically a paper airplane on a string. It’s fast and easy to make. The best thing about this kite is that it needs next to no wind to get airborne, so you can simply run with it to get it up in the sky. Why...
by Aurora Lipper | Mar 4, 2013 | Homeschool Science Curriculum Resources, Science Experiments
This is a double-project, because each requires the scraps of the other. The origami airplane requires a square sheet of paper, and the ninja star needs the strip left over from turning a regular sheet of copy paper into a square sheet. Both of these contraptions fly...
by Aurora Lipper | Feb 25, 2013 | Homeschool Science Curriculum Resources, Science Experiments
A cable car transports people or things in a vehicle that uses a strong cable to pull at a steady speed. Also called aerial lift, aerial tramway, or gondola, these are different from the cable cars associated with San Francisco, which use buried cables to move the car...
by Aurora Lipper | Feb 18, 2013 | Homeschool Science Curriculum Resources, Science Experiments
Famous scientist Michael Faraday built the first one of these while studying magnetic and electricity, and how they both fit together. Want to see what he figured out? The current from the battery is flowing through the wire, creating a magnetic field around the wire,...
