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A Funny Taste
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In this activity, learners explore the different salinities of various sources of water by taste-testing.
Enhanced Water Taste Test
Learners conduct a "blind" taste-test of several types of enhanced or fitness water drinking water that has commercially added substances like vitamins, sugars, or herbs.

Light Soda
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In this activity, learners sublimate dry ice and then taste the carbon dioxide gas.

Water Sphere Lens
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In this activity about light and refraction, learners make a lens and magnifying glass by filling a bowl with water.

Half Full or Half Empty
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In this activity (12th activity on the page), learners conduct an experiment to demonstrate how muscles are constantly feeding information to the brain about what they are doing.
The Bent Pencil
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In this optics activity, learners explore how light bends and affects what we see.

Make Money Appear Before Your Eyes
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In this optics activity, learners use water to make a coin "appear" and "disappear." Use this activity to demonstrate how light refracts and introduce light as waves.

Your Body in Your Mind's Eye
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This activity is about how you form mental images of your body's position in space, independent of vision. Can you take a sip of water from a cup with your eyes closed?
Mix and Match
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In this optics activity, learners explore color by examining color dots through colored water and the light of a flashlight.

Release the Rainbow
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In this activity, learners create a water prism to break light into the seven colors of the rainbow.

Bending Light
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In this optics activity, learners make a lens and explore how the eye manipulates the light that enters it.

Sock It To Me
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In this activity, learners discover how sweating makes us feel cooler. Learners put on one damp sock and one dry sock and sit in front of a fan.

Bubble Tray
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In this activity, learners use simple materials to create giant bubbles.
Guiding Light
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In this optics activity, learners use glass and water to demonstrate total internal reflection (TIR).
Why is the Sky Blue?
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In this activity, learners create a "mini sky" in a glass of water in a dark room.

Vanishing Rods
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This is a quick activity/demonstration that introduces learners to the concept of index of refraction. Learners place stirring rods in a jar of water and notice they can see them clearly.

Make Your Own Sea Otter
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In this activity about sea otters, learners make their own "otter whiskers" and use them to find objects underwater.

Real Glass Xylophone
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In this activity, learners create a xylophone by filling glasses with different amounts of water and tapping them with a metal spoon.

Periscope
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In this activity, learners construct a device that allows them to look over ledges or around corners.

Total Internal Reflection
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In this activity, learners use a laser pointer, empty soda bottle, rubber plug and water to demonstrate total internal reflection.