Sagehen Teacher Resources

Cool Science

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Find something awesome? Link it here. Googling should yield more hard science info for building lesson plans around any of these.

This page has a clickable Periodic Table of the Elements that links to videos about each element. There are a bunch of them that kids would find pretty exciting: try hydrogen or sodium :)

Here's a guy who measured the speed of light in his microwave oven.
Excitement! How about creating the 4th state of matter (plasma) inside your microwave? Google "grape plasma" for explanations of the phenomenon (& more child-friendly videos, hopefully).
Ever wonder what would happen if you put a __ in the microwave? This site will help you find out without even pissing off your domestic companions or lighting the kitchen on fire.

Everybody needs cool science gadgets! Be sure to check out the user action shots of each product--pretty hilarious. Are you desperate to find a stainless steel ice cube or an Einstein action figure? How about a scrolling L.E.D. belt buckle or silly putty for grown ups. Of course you already have a periodic table refrigerator magnet set & a levitating globe, but can you live without "meat-sucking flora" on your desktop? And in case you're wondering, "All ThinkGeek products may be used to help you achieve World Domination".
Artifacts from the fourth dimension! Klein Bottles & Chinese Spouting Bowls. The website is incredibly amusing. Amazingly, the author claims that "not many people need zero volume, boundary free, nonorientable manifolds." Let's prove him wrong!
Need a really specific magnet? This is your site.

Instructables is a great website where people upload directions for building things. There are lots of science projects, including a kitchen protein laboratory & making bacon soap. Or, you can learn how to build amusing classroom-disrupting devices like marshmallow blow guns.
Fun Science Gallery