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Amazing Science at the Roxy

Subject Area:

Elementary

Address/URL:

http://hood-consulting.com/amazing/index.html

Description:

This site provides interactive activities for kids and their teachers or parents. Students can visit DemoMania and National Chemistry Week WonderScience to find different experiments and demonstrations. For example, you can find out what makes some soda sour and some soda sweet. There's also a special place for teachers, which is full of science lesson plans. The Observatory has information about astronomy and links to several astronomy sites.

Note: Most demonstrations are movies, which require long download times and applications for viewing movies.

How You Can Use This Source:

Find out about amazing inks and chemical sunsets.
Challenge an adult to a raisin race.

Thanks to Jim Hood of University of Central Arkansas for submitting this site.

Go to Amazing Science at the Roxy.