Science on a shoestring: inspiring experiments with everyday items
Low cost, high impact: try these creative and engaging experiments that use inexpensive everyday materials to bring curriculum science to life.
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Low cost, high impact: try these creative and engaging experiments that use inexpensive everyday materials to bring curriculum science to life.
Starstruck: with just water, sunlight, and simple equipment, students can use their physics knowledge to calculate the temperature of the Sun.
Strengthen knowledge in the subjects of energy supply, grid load, and data evaluation, while using 21st century skills in a fun way.
Turn your students into particle detectives and spark an interest in particle physics with an engaging and inexpensive science show for all ages.
Build a linear accelerator to demonstrate spallation – the source of high-energy neutrons used by the new European Spallation Source being built in Sweden.
Redox reactions carried out by inexpensive baker’s yeast during breadmaking can also be used to demonstrate biofuel cells in the classroom.
Do air convection currents really move as they are drawn in textbook illustrations? Let’s make invisible convection currents visible using mist.
Explore the everyday science behind the quest to harness fusion energy – the energy that powers the stars – in a safe way here on Earth.
Can we meet all our energy needs with renewables? How can energy models help us to explore the future of energy? And how can we all become part of the energy transition?
Pocketful of sunshine: build a solar cooker and learn about the thermoelectric effect with Peltier modules.
Science on a shoestring: inspiring experiments with everyday items
Estimation of the Sun’s temperature without leaving the school
Explore energy production with the escape game ‘Village of the Future’
Particle Detectives: boldly bringing particle physics outreach to new frontiers
Build a linear accelerator model
Simple biofuel cells: the superpower of baker’s yeast
A misty way to see convection currents
The everyday science of fusion
Clean energy for all: can sun and wind power our lives?
Cooking with sunlight and producing electricity using Peltier modules