I need some simple fun science experiments to do with my six year old boy using everyday objects and products. Please can you post me any great ones you know of along with a simple explanation of how to do it and why it happens.
2007-01-01 15:11:38 · 8 answers · asked by T 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
Water volume - how liquids conform to there container and how to measure liquids.
Diffusion of food coloring into water. water a single drop of color spread across the liquid. Combine with mixing colors (yellow & blue = green ect.)
Show how oxidation (Rusting) absorbs oxygen - Stuff a piece of wet steel wool (used brillo pad with out the soap) into the bottom of a glass. Invert the glass into a bowl of water trapping the air in the glass. As the steel wool rusts over the next few days it absorbs the oxygen in the air causing the water level to rise in the glass. (you might need to put a penny under the rim of the glass to allow the water to flow easily into the glass) You can also demonstrate this with a small tea candle. As the candle burns up the oxygen the candle snuffs itself out and the water level will rise.
Carnation and food coloring. Demonstrate how plants uptake water. A white carnation will draw water with food coloring in it causing the flower to change color as it absorbe the coloring.
Make a parachute with a piece of cloth, string and a small weight.
Put an egg in a glass of water and watch it sink, Add salt to the water and watch it float. Shows how bouyancy is a function of density and displacment
Make a bathtub submarine with a coke bottle and a piece of tubing and some clay. Placing the tubing into the bottle and blowing air into it will make the bottle float. Letting the air out will make it sink. use clay to balance the bottle
Show how different sounds can be made with a ruler. Having different lenghts of a ruler overhang the edge of table and flict the ruler tip.The ruler will vibrate making sound. Change the lenght of overhang will change the frequency of sound.
Fun with magnets --- Show how magnets attract and repell each other depending on there orientation. Determine what a magnet can pick up
Demonstrate jet propulsion with a baloon, blow it up and let it go...
Tin can (Paper Cup) telephone. Pass the end of string through the bottom of paper cups. Tie a button to each string to help prevent the string from being pulled out easily. Pull the string taught by each of you holding a cup and hav a conversation...
2007-01-02 12:42:57 · answer #1 · answered by MarkG 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Put a celery stalk in a glass of colored water. If done right, the celery will start to take on the color (so you want a dark color) of the dye as it obsorbs the water. This might take a couple of days.
You are basically showing the child how plants eat.
Use a prism to show the different colors that might up light and the spliting of light is what creates rainbows.
Get a bowl or cup and fill it with some water. Sprinkle pepper on the water and some of the pepper should float. Put some dish soap on on a tooth pick and stick the soap side down in the middle of the "container." The pepper should quickly shoot to the side of the container and the soap breaks the surface tension. This surface tension allows some bugs to skim across the water. It's also required for mosquitos to sit to lay their eggs (without surface tension they will drown when they land). In Africa, they are using microbes to break the water tension in still bodies of water to prevent malaria (by preventing new mosquitos from being born) which is carried by mosquitos.
2007-01-01 15:45:37 · answer #2 · answered by gregory_dittman 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you have a large extended living family (or good records) chart a history of hair color and eye color in a family tree. Any deeper would not be fun for a 6 year old. Try to explain to him about inheriting traits. Keep it at a 6 year old level.
Else: try color wheels - fun to make for kids. You apply 2 or more colors to a circle cardboard wheel that can spin. Watch as two or more colors change as the wheel spins. Create a color chart a and B makes C etc. You would need to make a spinner, a stand and a few wheels.
2007-01-01 15:26:08 · answer #3 · answered by Carl P 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
get 2 pair of dice and keep one pair as is while on the other pair sand of one or more of hte corners. Now throw each set of dice at least 1000 time and record the number of the result. From this and some reading on probability list the probability of a regular set of dice(the unaltered ones) and your pair in which you sanded of one or more corners. If you want to continue this type of experiment, you could also get another pair of dice and with some help, drill out one of the spots and fill the hole with something heavy, hten repeat the 1000 rolls and determine how this affects (ie changes the probability of rolling hte various numbers) this should teach yousomething about the meaning of probability. And there are several other things you could do such as with a deck of cards.
2007-01-03 10:41:58 · answer #4 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-06 07:47:22 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I made a model of the solar system with my daughter. we used foam balls and wire. then we hung it in her room. it was fun because she likes to make stuff. they even have a kit for this at most craft stores. also the potato battery is fun too.
2007-01-01 15:20:03 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
the baking soda and vinegar one is always fun...
2007-01-01 15:13:32 · answer #7 · answered by among_ashes 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
tornado or how plants grow
2007-01-01 15:14:21 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋