Explainer Activities (PDF)

Activity
Airzooka

Balancing Nails

Density Cubes

Energy Stick

Difficulty

Description

Video

Easy

Shoot Air

http://www.arborsci.c
https://www.youtube.co
om/media/datasheet/
m/watch?v=Jsjm0gop-H4
P8-5700_DS.pdf

Explainer
Station
Shoebox

Hard

Can you balance
nails?

https://www.stevespa
https://youtu.be/9xtXg_6 nglerscience.com/lab/
C8QE
experiments/balancingnail-puzzle/

Explainer
Station
Shoebox

Easy

Will cubes of
different density
sink at different
rates?

Easy

Use the Energy Stick
to turn your body
into a human
conductor of
https://www.stevespa
https://www.youtube.co
electricity (safe),
nglerscience.com/stor
m/watch?v=uTYIKz3F_v4
haver kids hold
e/energy-stick.html
hands and close
ciruit, or bring by
Plasma Globes

Giant Slinky

Medium

Gravity Fail

Medium

Text Walkthrough

Supplies?

http://www.arborsci.c
om/media/datasheet/ Water
P1-1010_DS.pdf

https://www.explorat
Make Waves, but
https://www.youtube.co
orium.edu/snacks/slin
not the Surfing Kind m/watch?v=4l2ik_oxaLM
ky-in-hand
https://www.stevespa
Tip a Jar full of water https://www.youtube.co
nglerscience.com/lab/
over without water m/watch?v=PzyKXWUy0y
Water
experiments/waterfalling out
c
screen/

Location

Explainer
Station
Shoebox

Explainer
Station
Shoebox

Explainer
Station
Shoebox
Explainer
Station
Shoebox

I Spy Game

Easy

http://nisenet.org/site
https://vimeo.com/album s/default/files/catalog
Find hidden Nano
/2292889/video/7940072 /uploads/8888/iobjects in a Picture.
0
spy_guide_27oct11.pd
f

Explainer
Station
Bookshelf

http://nisenet.org/site
Will an ice cube melt https://vimeo.com/album s/default/files/catalog
Ice Melting Blocks / Heat
Medium
Transfer at a different rate on /2292889/video/1124617 /uploads/PropertiesHe Ice (located in office)
different surfaces? 89
atTransfer_guide_5no
v14.pdf
https://wondersphysic
s.wiscweb.wisc.edu/w
https://www.youtube.co
pm/watch?v=D2KLight Bulb
content/uploads/sites
m1CilCM
/219/2017/05/Plasma
BallActivity.pdf

Light bulb and Plasma Globes
Easy

Take a CFL Light
Bulb and bring it
over by Plasma
Globes near DTE
theatre

Mystery Shapes

http://nise-d8Let children feel a
dev.dev2.dripdrophost
https://vimeo.com/album
bag and use logic to
.net/sites/nise.d8.dev/
/2292889/video/6131100
hypothesize what is
files/catalog/uploads/
2
inside.
11071/toolsmystery_g
uide_29oct2012.pdf

Easy

Powers of Ten Game Medium

A card game to
teach about size
differences.

http://www.nisenet.or
g/sites/default/files/ca
https://vimeo.com/79517
talog/uploads/5414/si
392
zepower_guide_15nov
10.pdf

Don't use paper like
instructions say. Just
have kids talk their
guesses out loud.

Explainer
Station
Shoebox

Explainer
Station
Shoebox

Explainer
Station Cart
closest to
Left Side

Explainer
Station
Shoebox

Resonance Bowl

Smelly Balloons

Sunset Egg

Medium

Make water splash
out of an anicent
bowl!

https://www.youtube.co http://www.arborsci.c Place purple mat under Egg Carton in
m/watch?v=1nVSgWbQo om/media/datasheet/ bowl. Please dry bowl Explainer
Dg
P7-7510_DS.pdf
and lock it back up.
Station

Medium

http://www.nisenet.or
Can you smell what
g/sites/default/files/ca
https://vimeo.com/10642
is inside of a
talog/uploads/sizeball
0293
balloon?
oon_guide_Feb2016_0
.pdf

Explainer
Station

Easy

http://www.arborsci.c
Hold a special egg
https://www.youtube.co om/media/datasheet/
up to the light and
m/watch?v=wlJurbH7E7g product_datasheet_su
it will change colors.
nset_egg.pdf

Explainer
Station