Lively experiments and demonstrations illustrate scientific principles and technological applications that relate to both teachers and students. Through real-life situations, students learn scientific concepts that relate to their everyday world. Host a Density Days party. Set up stations where students can test the density of various objects in varying types of liquids. For example, corks, eggs, cereal, cubes in water, baby oil, and vegetable oil.
Students can create spreadsheets to graph and interpret their results.
Students learn the fundamentals of electrostatics and current electricity through animation and computer graphics that help students formulate mental images of abstract concepts. Along with scientific inquiries, students are also made aware of electricity s potential hazards. Take the great Particle Adventure hosted by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. More Scientific Sensations from ITV Click here to get to the ITV Resource Database search. On the search index page, scroll down to find the search by broadcast date.