Wikijunior:Big Book of Fun Science Experiments
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Hello and Welcome to the Big Book of fun Science Experiments!
This book is about science experiments that you can do in the home and experiments that you can nag your teacher to do in school.
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[edit] Featured Experiments
Yucky gooey slime! Isn't it just great?! We love it!
- Red cabbage indicator
- Red cabbage indicators are great for showing if something is an acid or base. It's that exciting!
Want to be able to see the sun and solar eclipses clearly without hurting your eyes? Then this is for you!
Make those raisins dance. And the best bit is - after you finish your experiment, you can eat the raisins!
[edit] Other Experiments
- Acid Investigations - It is ACID! Isn't it cool?
- Baking Powder and Lemon Squash - A chemical reaction that you can drink; and you don't get chemical burns!
- Build your own periscope - WOW! It now takes even LESS energy to look around corners. What an age we live in!
- Chromatography of inks
- Electricity from Lemons - Yep, those juices you put in your highly conductive drinking water have the potential to store electricity! Amazing!
- Fun with Baking Powder and Vinegar - Bombs and fire extinguishers on the same page? You can do both with these two.
- Explosive foam - Use magnesium and HCl to get really explosive soap bubbles
- Grow Your Own Crystals - Just what every kid needs: Your own crystals!
- Grow Your Own Fungi - Don't have a garden? Never mind, you can create your own miniature one on a slice of bread.
- Guide a Termite - Make them obey your every command!
- How to make a Needle float, and How to make it sink - Learn that a steel needle can float in fresh water, but cannot in soapy water.
- Keep your mouse warm - Ever had those days where you get to your mouse and you find the worst thing ever; that your mouse is- A LITTLE CHILLY? Well avoid such day wreckers in the future with this fun experiment.
- Make a colorful flower - How to dye a white flower pretty colors.
- Make a floating compass - Who needs a store-bought compass when you can make your own?
- Make a spinning paper helicopter - You can make a helicopter out of paper! Does one need any other reason to do this experiment?
- Make a switch - Switches, what would we do without them? If you always leave everything switched on anyway then this is not for you, but if you want to be able to turn things off as well as on step this way.
- Making rainbows in liquids - Have the time and skill to remain still in order to see pretty colors in liquids? Then this is most certainly for you!
- Power a boat with soap - The best part is: it is a boat powered with ordinary soap!
- Test floating - Always make sure things float BEFORE you use them as a life preserver!
- The fantastic squirting egg - Want to annoy other people by squirting them with eggs and not even put enough energy into it to crack an egg? Then this is for you!
- Write secret messages - Do you fancy being a spy when you grow up?
[edit] Requested Experiments
- How A Bath Fizzer Works, and How To Make One - Learn how that fizzer works, and make one with stuff you can get from your kitchen or a craft store. This is mostly a girl's experiment, but boys might enjoy making the salts. A chemistry experiment.
- Why does it rain?
