Dynamic Demo of the Week-Frosty The Snowcan
It’s one thing to observe heat causing water to change from a solid to liquid to gas. But can it go the other way? Materials: metal soup can, ice, salt, spoon
This demo is an excerpt from an Interactive Science Lesson called “The Great Adventure“.
[S3VIDEO file=’demos/adventure,1-demo.mp4′]
Time-Saving Teacher Tip-Clean Scissors
Are you the disgruntled owner of a pair of scissors gummed up with some sort of adhesive? Soak a small cloth in mineral spirits and wipe off the scissor blades, and they’ll be good as new again.
Lesson Spotlight- a sample of 2 Member lessons
Pasta Stress Test
A fun and engaging inquiry lesson that will cause your students to notice all the little things that need to be nailed down and made repeatable and consistent in a good science experiment.
[S3VIDEO file=’Movies/Stress-com.mov’ authurl=’true’ autoplay=’true’ allowfullscreen=’true’ displaymode=’overlay’ clicktoplay=’Preview Lesson’]
Asexual & Sexual Reproduction
A simple but powerful activity. The goal is to help students understand that asexual reproduction leads to clones and sexual reproduction produces variations.
[S3VIDEO file=’Movies/Reproduction-com.mov’ authurl=’true’ autoplay=’true’ allowfullscreen=’true’ buffer=’1′ displaymode=’overlay’ clicktoplay=’Preview Lesson’]
Click here for past issues of the Interactive Science Update Please forward this on to others!
