Teacher Demo: What Makes Up a Planet?

The International Astronomical Union classifies solar system bodies into three categories: planets, dwarf planets, and small solar system bodies (including comets, asteroids, and meteoroids). There are eight planets in the solar system with two distinct groupings. The...

Teacher Demo/Student Activity: Bending Water

In this demo, a polyethylene rod is charged by rubbing with wool. The charged rod is then used to bend a stream of water flowing from a tap. Different substances have different attractions for electrons. When two materials are rubbed together, electrons will leave the...

Teacher Demo/Student Activity: Gas Tests

This demonstration/activity involves the safe production of oxygen, hydrogen, and carbon dioxide gases, as well as the appropriate results for tests used to identify these gases. This content is only available to...

Teacher Demo/Student Activity: Disappearing Volume

In this activity, students mix a given quantity of salt with a fixed volume of water. Mass and volume measurements are made before and after mixing to determine if these quantities change. Students observe that mass is conserved during dissolving while volume is not....

Teacher Demo/Student Activity: Gas tests

This demonstration/activity involves the safe production of oxygen, hydrogen, and carbon dioxide gases, as well as the appropriate results for tests used to identify these gases. This content is only available to...
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