by Aurora Lipper | May 6, 2013 | Homeschool Science Curriculum Resources, Science Experiments
When you drop a ball, it falls 16 feet the first second you release it. If you throw the ball horizontally, it will also fall 16 feet in the first second, even though it is moving horizontally… it moves both away from you and down toward the ground. Think about a...
by Aurora Lipper | Apr 29, 2013 | Homeschool Science Curriculum Resources, Science Experiments
This is the kind of energy most people think of when you mention ‘alternative energy’, and for good reason! Without the sun, none of anything you see around you could be here. Plants have known forever how to take the energy and turn it into usable stuff… so why can’t...
by Aurora Lipper | Apr 22, 2013 | Homeschool Science Curriculum Resources, Science Experiments
Do you like marshmallows cooked over a campfire? What if you don’t have a campfire, though? We’ll solve that problem by building our own food roaster – you can roast hot dogs, marshmallows, anything you want. And it’s battery-free, as this device is powered by the...
by Aurora Lipper | Apr 15, 2013 | Homeschool Science Curriculum Resources, Science Experiments
Can you use the power of the sun without using solar cells? You bet! We’re going to focus the incoming light down into a heat-absorbing box that will actually cook your food for you. How does that work? Your solar cooker does a few different things. First, it...
by Aurora Lipper | Apr 8, 2013 | Homeschool Science Curriculum Resources, Science Experiments
We’re going to learn how to build a weather instrument that will record whether (weather?) the day was sunny or cloudy using a very sensitive piece of paper. Are you ready? You can use sun print paper to test how well your sunblock works – just smear your favorite...
by Aurora Lipper | Apr 1, 2013 | Homeschool Science Curriculum Resources, Science Experiments
This experiment shows how a battery works using electrochemistry. The electrons inside the copper are going to react with the acid in the lemon juice to make a flow of current you can detect with a digital multimeter. The copper electrons are chemically reacting with...
