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] This week's featured Experiments
Yucky gooey slime! Isn't it just great?! We love it!
- Red cabbage indicator
- Red cabbage indicator is great for showing if something is acid or alkali. It's that exciting!
Want to be able to look at the sun and solar eclipses without destroying your eyes to such a state that you will never be able to see again? 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
- Wikijunior Big Book of Fun Science Experiments/Explosive foam - Electrolise soapy water with alternating current and get really explosive soap bubbles
- Fun with baking powder and vinegar - Bombs and fire extinguishers on the same page? You can do both with these two.
- Electricity from lemons - Yep, those juices you put in your highly conductive drinking water have the potential to store electricity! Amazing!
- 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!
- Build your own periscope - WOW! It now takes even LESS energy to look around corners. What an age we live in!
- Power a boat with soap - The best part is: it is a boat powered with ordinary soap!
- 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!
- Make a spinning paper helicopter - You can make a helicopter out of paper! Does one need any other reason to do this experiment?
- Write secret messages - Do you fancy being a spy when you grow up?
- Baking powder and lemon squash - A chemical reaction that you can drink; and you don't get chemical burns!
- Make a floating compass - Who needs a store-bought compass. Make you own and save literally pennies while having a far inferior and less reliable design.
- 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.
- Grow your own fungi - Don't have a garden? Never mind, you can create your own miniature one on a slice of bread.
- Grow your own crystals - Just what every kid needs: Your own crystals!
- Guide a termite - Make them obey your every command!
- Test floating - Always make sure things float BEFORE you use them as a life preserver!
- Acid Investigations - It is ACID! Isn't it cool?
- 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.
- 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.
