Instructor Demonstrations
Simulations
Pressure
- Fluid Pressure - Siphons
- Introductory Activity for Hypothesis Generation - Sourcebook 5.4.2, Physics 4.3.1
- Air Pressure & Partial Vacuum
- Collapsing Can - Sourcebook 5.1.2, Chemistry 2.4.1, Physics 4.1.1
- Air Pressure Fountain - Chemistry 2.4.1
- Candle & Flask - Physics 4.1.4
- Upside-down glass - Physics 4.1.3
- Vaccum Pump - Chemistry 5.1.2
- Pressure & Machines - Diagrams for illustrating pressure concepts
- Steam engine - Hero's Engine
- 2 liter bottle water rockets - Sourcebook 16.5.1
- Breathing machine - Physics 4.1.5
- Smoking
- Pressure & Phase Change
- Boiling by Cooling - Chemistry 2.4.3, Physics 4.2.2
- Cloud Formation
- Fluid Pressure
- Static Pressure - Dams - Physics 4.3.2
- Fluids in Motion - Bernoulis Principle - Balancing a ping pong ball - Physics 4.4
Density & Buoyancy
- Things that sink and float
- comparison of diet coke & regular coke
- Hands-On Chemistry 1.3.7
- density - soda
- Obesity trends in the US
- BMI calculator:
- BMI = [weight / (height x height)] x 703
- calculate BMI by dividing weight in pounds (lbs) by height in inches (in) squared and multiplying by a conversion factor of 703.
- Cartesian diver
- Hands-On Chemistry 5.1.2.1
- Hands-On Physics 3.2.2 - diagram or Cartesian Diver
- Submarine Balast Tanks | Photo of sub emerging
- raisins & 7-up
- Hands-On Chemistry 5.3.2
- Suspended weight
- Hands-On Physics 3.2.3, 3.2.4 - diagram
- hot air balloon
- Hands-On Chemistry 5.1.4
- hot air balloons
- Convection in liquids
- Hands-On Chemistry 4.2.5
- salad oil vs. water
- carbon dioxide extinguishing flame
- Lake Nyos
- Sulfur hexalouride (floating metal on an invisble gas)
- Density of salt/ fresh water; Density of hot/cold water
- methane soap bubbles, hydrogen balloon vs. CO2 soap bubbles
- Hands-On Chemistry 1.3.9
- Inquiry lesson in density and bouyancy
Acids & Bases, pH
- anthocyanin; cabbage
- Hands-On Chemistry 5.5.3
- pH scale - anthocyanin
- PhET - pH Scale
Diffusion, Osmosis, Transpiration
- Diffusion
of Gases
- Hands-On Chemistry 2.3.2
- photos & animation
- Temperature effect on Diffusion
- Hands-On Chemistry 2.3.3
- Osmosis
- Hands-On Chemistry 2.3.5
- animation
- Osmotic Pressure
- Hands-On Chemistry 2.3.6
- animation
- Transpiration
- Dialysis
- Hands-On Chemistry 2.3.7
- photos
Light / Vision
- Light
- Absorption & Transmission
- Hands-On Physics 7.6.3
- Photometers
- Determining the wavelength of light
- Hands-On Physics 7.6
- Absorption & Transmission
- Optics
- refraction: lasers
- Refraction
(penny in the cup)
- Hands-On Physics 7.2.1
- pin hole lens
- Hands-On Physics 7.5
- The eye (Anatomy)
- Vision (Physiology)
- Hands-On Physics 7.6.4
- Retinal Fatigue
- American flag - complementary colors
- Color-blindness
- Perception
- Optical illusions
- put the bird in the cage
- moving fish
- Eye dominance
