Summary: Science is best taught hands on. Explosions are fun. This is a mathematical equation that leads to exploding buckets of ping-pong balls.
TEACHING SCIENCE GOES [happy] BOOM! Yay for Ping-Pong Balls!
BLOT: (26 Sep 2012 - 04:20:08 PM)
TEACHING SCIENCE GOES [happy] BOOM! Yay for Ping-Pong Balls!
Now, admittedly, the actual science content is fairly lacking here, but look at all the teaching moments: expansion of liquids into gaseous form, basic safety procedures, fun with ping-pong balls, how loud things can be, and why liquid nitrogen is the toy that keeps on giving!
OTHER BLOTS THIS MONTH: September 2012
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