A school of fish

We talked about electrolysis and electroplating, and we wanted to try zinc-plating a penny as described here , here , and here . The hard...

It's pretty easy to make a simple motor. We got excellent instructions here . As you can see, it's just made of a battery, two sa...

Dissecting a battery is one of those things I've always kind of wanted to do but didn't know I was allowed to! :) I got the idea...

This activity was really, really fun, and quite spectacular to watch. On the day we learned about Thomas Edison, we made our own light bu...

After making some simple circuits, we were ready to learn about resistors. First we made a simple "dimmer switch" using a wire ...

There are a lot of cool electronics kits you can get, and in fact we had been given some snap circuit kits earlier in the year, which I...

After static electricity, we went on to current electricity. First we played a game where we showed how current flows (emphasizing the po...