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Depth Spinner
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Experience a spinning spiral...you won't be hypnotized, but you'll see what happens when you look away. It's like getting off a merry-go-round and everything keeps moving.
Designer Ears: Make “better” ears!
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Find out what it would be like to have ears shaped differently from your own! Design and make different animal ears then try them out.
Salty Pits
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In this activity, learners explore how different deodorants work. Learners treat agar plates with different types of deodorants and compare the bacteria growth on the plates to the control sample.
Bird in the Cage
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In this activity about afterimages, learners explore what happens when receptor cells called cones in your eye's retina get tired.
Mirrorly a Window
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In this activity about light and reflection, learners discover that what you see is often affected by what you expect to see.
A Stand-up Egg
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In this science trick, learners get an egg to stand-up on its long-axis vertical to a table's top.
Lateral Inhibition
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Which one of your eyes are dominant? Do they act independently or are they equally "in control?" This activity explores how your eyes work (or don't work) together.
Size and Distance
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In this activity about depth perception, learners create an optical illusion in a shoe box.
Giant Lens
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In this activity about light and refraction, learners discover how a lens creates an image that hangs in midair.
Macro-Microarray
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In this activity, learners explore the "nuts and bolts" of gene chips.
Color Contrast
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Do you have a hard time matching paint swatches with your furniture? When you consider human perception, color is context dependent.
Proprioception: Wiggle where you're at
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We're told from a young age that we have 5 senses, but we have many more. One of which is our awareness of our own body part's orientation and position.
Bone Stress
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In this optics activity, learners examine how polarized light can reveal stress patterns in clear plastic.
Anti-Gravity Mirror
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In this demonstration, amaze learners by performing simple tricks using mirrors. These tricks take advantage of how a mirror can reflect your right side so it appears to be your left side.
Afterimage
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In this activity about light and perception, learners discover how a flash of light can create a lingering image called an "afterimage" on the retina of the eye.
Squirming Palm
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Known as the waterfall effect, this activity demonstrates adaptation in our visual system.
Michelle O (formerly Vanna)
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We don't normally view people upside down and so our brains aren't accustomed to it.
Radiohead
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When you teeth clatter, they make quite the racket disproportionately to how much they actually sound to someone else.
Viral Packaging
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In this activity, learners create virus models, including nucleic acid and proteins, using simple materials. This resource includes information about virus structure and gene therapy.
Sweat Spot
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In this activity, learners use a chemical reaction to visualize where moisture forms on the body.