Home Science

FLEET wants to make science more accessible to the wider community, and we want to help build a passion for science in the young Australians who will be the country’s future great scientists and engineers. We encourage families to do activities at home that foster a love for science from an early age. To help, FLEET will provide ideas for fun, easy science activities and experiments. Check back here for a new activity each week. Tell us know how your experiments go, and send pics or ideas for future experiments, to education@fleet.org.au or visit and post ideas and comments at our Ask the Physicists Facebook page. To find out more about FLEET research, you can check out FLEET’s facebook.com/FLEETCentre or twitter.com/FLEETCentre

Activities

Links to the Australian Curriculum are provided where teachers can use these demos in the classroom.

Animation on Paper

Appearing Coin

Balancing See-Saw

Balloon Rocket

Balloon vs Fire

Bird in a Cage Illusion

Boat Racers

Boiling Ice

Card Trick

Catapult

Catching Bubbles

Choose a Coin Magic Trick

Coin Shooter

Coke vs Diet Coke

Coloured Light

Coloured Words Challenge

Crushing Can

Crystal Star

Cup Bridge

Dancing Sultanas

Dancing Whiteboard Marker

Day and Night

Dissolving M&M’s

Double Bounce

Egg Drop

Egg in a Jar

Egg Shell Strength

Electric Motors: Spinning Wire

Electrified Steel Wool

Elephant Toothpaste

Exploding Bags

Falling Blocks Illusion – Jacob’s Ladder

Falling Objects

Falling Rings

Fingerprinting

Fizzy Colours

Fizzy Fountain

Flame in a Glass

FLEET School Home Science: Forces and motion

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FLEET Schools Home science: Physics at random

Floating Match

Floating Water

Glow Stick Science

Holey Bag

Holey Balloon

Home Science: Activities with teacher resources

Honeycomb

Hot Ice

Hovering Grape

How to find a rainbow

Ice on a String

Jumping Flame

Kitchen Extinguisher

Lava Lamp

Layered Liquids

Magic Floating Cutlery

Magic Jumping Beans

Marbled Milk

Marker Pen Chromatography

Matchhead rocket

Möbius strip – a one-sided object in 3D

Moving Arrows

Musical Glasses

Oil and Water

Phases of the Moon

Plastic Milk

Punching Corn Flour

Red Cabbage Indicator

Rope Climber

Rubber Eggs

Rubberband car

Salt Crystals

Self-blowing Balloons

Shapes and Patterns & the next big thing in physics: moiré pattern and twistronics

Sherbert

Shrinking Chip Packet

Sinking Oranges

Siphoning Water

Skittles Rainbow

Slime

Slime

Spinning Eggs

Stalactites

Strength Challenge

Supertaster

Teabag rocket

Two balloons

Two Straws

Under pressure: Heat, airplanes and Bernouli

Under Water Candle

Volcanoes

Walking Colours

Water Bender

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