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101 EFFECTIVE EARTH SCIENCE DEMONSTRATIONS USING ONLY ONE

OR TWO ITEMS

101 of the Best Demos

William Johnston, Science Education Major Mark Francek, Professor

Central Michigan University Mt. Pleasant, MI 48858

MASTER LIST OF ALL DEMOS Table of Contents

GEOSPHERE DEMONSTRATIONS: 1. Paper Towel Rock Folds (Demonstrating Folds in Metamorphic Rocks) 2. You Crack Me Up! 3. It's a Dirty Job... 4. Student Made Body Waves 5. Designing Minerals with Legos 6. My Teacher Caused an Earthquake 7. Seismic Waves in a Popcorn Bowl 8. P and S Waves in the Hallway 9. My Dirty Laundry Relates to Geology? 10. Which Rocks Will Fizz? 11. BARtender 12. Bubble Blowers 13. My Soil Has Layers! 14. Hotwire High Jinks 15. Earthquakes: They're Definitely Not Your FAULT! 16. Fractures in Cheese 17. Graham Cracker Earthquake 18. Peanut Butter Ridge 19. Penny Decay 20. Erosion and Weathering in my Mouth

ATMOSPHERE DEMONSTRATIONS: 21. Why No Flood? 22. Pop Top 23. Lets Cause Some Thunder! 24. Light Bulb Air Current and Wind 25. Track Star 26. Stubborn Paper Wad 27. The Great Coin Blowing Demonstration 28. I'm Upside Down in a Spoon! 29. The Vanishing Reflection 30. The Tapping Finger

31. The Screamer 32. The Invisible Leg 33. I Can Create Lightning 34. Weather Predictions from a Pop Bottle 35. Instant Weight Loss with Elevation 36. Comb Beams 37. The Collapsing Bottle 38. Magical Bending Straw 39. A Balloon Rocket 40. Bent Water 41. Expanded Air is Cold 42. Bernoulli's Law with Pop Cans

HYDROSPHERE DEMONSTRATIONS: 43. Water's Great Escape 44. How Many Pins? 45. The Reappearing Penny 46. Homemade Hydroelectric Power 47. "Freeze Me and I'll Burst" 48. Ice Boat Float 49. The Floating Glass 50. Center the Cork 51. Brim to Brim 52. Water, Water Everywhere 53. The Effects of Stream Pollution, in a Jar 54. Float Your Metal Boat 55. Why Turbidity Affects Visibility 56. The Fireproof Balloon 57. Falling Test Tubes? 58. A Glacier in a Milk Jug 59. London Fog ? Anywhere You Want It 60. Now I Can See It! 61. How Much Can it Hold?

SPACE/ASTRONOMY DEMONSTRATIONS: 62. What Do You Mean the Sun is Already Set? 63. Equator is Hot, North Pole is Not 64. Parallax Puzzle 65. Moving Picture 66. Meteor Burnout 67. Space, The Dark Frontier 68. I'm Glad I Don't Live on Jupiter 69. Blackout 70. Quicker Ruler Fall and the Planets 71. Hot Box 72. Who is that Man on the Moon? 73. Cereal Bowl Craters 74. "Honey, I Shrunk the Balloons!" 75. Flashlight, Star Bright ? Why I See Certain Stars at Night 76. Bigger Means Brighter 77. Blast Off! 78. The Importance of Space Suits 79. Homemade Nebula 80. The Planet Race 81. Is that Satellite Moving or Not? 82. Why Can't We See Venus? 83. Expanding the Universe on a Balloon 84. Where's Mercury? 85. Red Spot Movement 86. Now I See the Planet Rings! 87. New to Full ? The Phases of the Moon

GENERAL SCIENCE, INQUIRY, AND MISCELLANEOUS DEMONSTRATIONS 88. Changing Weight with Your Fingertip 89. How Many Folds? 90. Is it Hot or Not? 91. Where Did it Go? 92. Is One Cup Really One Cup?

93. Homemade Telescope 94. Underwater "Eggspert" 95. Rapid Transit 96. Canned Laughter 97. Power-Lifting Fingers 98. The Astounding Balancing Coin 99. The Amazing Balancing Yardstick 100. Hot Hands 101. Gravity Race

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