Experiments that kids can do :)
Hydrophobicity Experiments
All Wet (Brought
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Do all liquids dissolve in water? interactions of oil, corn syrup and
alcohol with water
http://chemistry.org/portal/Chemistry?PID=wondernetdisplay.html&DOC=wondernet\activities\solutions\wet.html
Floating Fluids
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Density acting on fluids like corn syrup, oil, alcohol and water.
densities of these liquids and why they float.
http://www.chemistry.org/portal/Chemistry?PID=wondernetdisplay.html&DOC=wondernet\activities\sinkorfloat\fluids.html
Kevin
Lehmann's Bad Chemistry webpage
-clarifies what is and what is not hydrophobicity.
http://www.princeton.edu/~lehmann/BadChemistry.html
Making Science Make Sense
is a site by Bayer AG dedicated to making science fun for children
links to main page with simple experiments demonstrating
the principles of polymerization, crosslinking, chromatography, molds and
jellies.
http://www.bayerus.com/msms/fun/index.html
Sticky
Icky (on polymerization)
Cool
Colors (on chromatography)
Polymerization
Experiments
Fabulous
flubber (Brought to you by wondernet)
Rubbery fun with flubber made from glue and Borax.
http://chemistry.org/portal/Chemistry?PID=wondernetdisplay.html&DOC=wondernet\activities\art\flubber.html
Goop
to go (Brought to you by wondernet)
make your own polymers, 2 kinds of squishy polymers
http://www.chemistry.org/portal/Chemistry?PID=wondernetdisplay.html&DOC=wondernet\activities\polymers\goop.html
Density Experiments
http://library.thinkquest.org/2690/exper/exp25.htm
http://www.wnpt.net/edserv/NTTI/lessonplans/7-8_bubble.pdf
experiments on making Bubbles and properties of Boyle's law
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