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These Soap Bubbles Form Ice Crystals Right Before Your Eyes
These bubbles freeze faster than they pop. Source: These Soap Bubbles Form Ice Crystals Right Before Your Eyes
Alka-Seltzer® Rainbow – submitted by Flinn Scientific Canada
The Alka-Seltzer tablets contain sodium bicarbonate and citric acid. As the Alka-Seltzer tablet dissolves in water, the citric acid reacts with the sodium bicarbonate to produce carbonic acid (Equation 1) and carbon dioxide (Equation 2). The carbonic acid then reacts...
Canadian Climate Literacy Survey
Canadian Climate Literacy Survey Learning for a Sustainable Future, in collaboration with Dr. Ellen Field and Associate Professor Paul Berger from the Faculty of Education at Lakehead University and Leger Research Intelligence Group, with support from SSHRC, is...
VFX Artist Reveals the True Scale of the Universe – submitted by Peter Cudmore
https://youtu.be/GCTuirkcRwo If The Earth was shrunk down to the size of a tennis ball, how big would the universe be? Wren is here to show you! Thanks for the idea Peter!!!
Perimeter Institute – Free Resources
Welcome to the PI Resource Centre. Order your free, award-winning videos and educational resources here. Source: Perimeter Institute
MIT Physics: Spinning Bike Wheel and Conservation of Angular Momentum
https://youtu.be/iaauRiRX4do When Ryan spins a bike wheel, nothing crazy happens. But something weird happens when he flips it over - watch and learn as he shows and explains why.
Spooky Halloween Drink | Science Experiments | Steve Spangler Science
Learn how to safely carbonate a beverage using dry ice. Source: Spooky Halloween Drink | Science Experiments | Steve Spangler Science
How Milk Becomes Cheese
https://youtu.be/uJEkb4Hq5jY Ever wonder how milk becomes cheese? We asked about the science and the microbes that go into this tasty food. This week on Reactions, we visit St. James Cheese Company in New Orleans to learn all about the chemistry of your favorite dairy...
Activity Ideas: Daily and Seasonal Changes – Grade 1 – by the Ontario Science Centre
This module is part of a series produced by the Ontario Science Centre on getting your students learning in a play-based classroom featuring indoor and outdoor activities centred on the Earth and Space curriculum strand. What it’s about: Students use materials...
Enzyme Activity Guided-Inquiry Lab Turnip Peroxidase – submitted by Flinn Scientific Canada
Peroxidase enzymes are widely distributed in plants and animals, including bacteria, to protect cells against the effects of oxidative stress and cell damage due to hydrogen peroxide. Peroxidases are easily extracted from turnips and other root vegetables and provide...
The Spacefaring Power of Pee
https://youtu.be/w6x54zYuqXk This week Reactions is taking the science and chemistry to Mars! Today we're looking at a brilliant new potential use for pee in space, and URINE for a surprise, it flows a bit farther than drinking water!
An Alternative to Lab Reports – Book Creator App – submitted by Sandra Gambarotto
Book Creator is an app with many applications. This post describes the use of Book Creator as an alternative to writing formal lab reports. Here is a quick example example of what a lab report could look like on book creator. You could also do this on Google...