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Breathing Yeasties
New York Hall of ScienceAdd to list DetailsDoes yeast breathe? Find out by watching how plastic bags filled with yeast, warm water and different amounts of sugar change over time. Demonstrate the interaction of microorganisms and the carbon...
Scream for Ice Cream
New York Hall of ScienceAdd to list DetailsDon't scream for ice cream -- make it with milk, sugar, flavoring and some 'salt-water' ice. Discover the chemistry of ice cream by creating your own.
Eggs at Rest Stay at Rest
New York Hall of ScienceAdd to list DetailsThis is an activity about inertia, Newton's First Law of Motion. Learners will discover how an egg at rest, or any object at rest, stays that way. Materials are simple items you can find...
Say Cheese!
New York Hall of ScienceAdd to list DetailsCreate a chemical reaction that makes cheese! This hands-on activity demonstrates that molecules and atoms are tiny particles that make up everything around us. In this experiment, milk molecules...
Save Your Skin
New York Hall of ScienceAdd to list DetailsThis is a fun activity about the power of the Sun and the importance of using sunscreen to protect your sensitive skin from its rays. Learners will hang apple rings in the Sun and monitor changes...
How Do Probes Get To Space?
New York Hall of ScienceAdd to list DetailsInvestigate how force and thrust work to propel rockets into outer space. Build a rocket: a blown-up balloon taped to a drinking straw threaded through some string. The rocket follows Newton's...
Spaghetti Bridge
New York Hall of ScienceAdd to list DetailsPlay with your food while learning about engineering! Build a spaghetti bridge, then test its strength by piling on the marshmallows, raw spaghetti, raw linguine and coins. Investigate the...
Turbidity
New York Hall of ScienceAdd to list DetailsThis is an activity about turbidity, or the amount of sediment suspended in water. Learners will discover how this important characteristic affects aquatic life as they observe different water...
Speed, Eggs and Slam!
New York Hall of ScienceAdd to list DetailsIn this fun hands-on activity, learners create a safety device to protect an egg "passenger" in a toy car crash. Learners experiment with different solutions to this very problem....
Comet Cratering
New York Hall of ScienceAdd to list DetailsMake impact craters with marbles (or rocks or washers) in a container of flour. Find out what you can learn about your "comets" by the craters they make.