Colorado Science Conference – November 2014
Kinesthetic Activities for Teaching Abstract Concepts Presented at the Colorado Science Conference in Denver, CO on November 2014. Click here to find see a writeup about the event. Topic #1: Your Body Knows Physics Getting Out of a Chair Falling Off a Cliff Walking a Tightrope Standing on Tiptoe Topic #2: Be the Molecule / Atom / […]
In the CSU Physics Teaching Labs: December 15-18
Twice a year, the Little Shop of Physics travels across campus to the Physics Department and sets up 150 hands-on science experiments in the teaching labs.
Get Your Science On: Lasers in the Mist
In this episode of “Get Your Science On”, Adam shows you some cool experiments with light scattering that you can do using a laser, a humidifier, and some small mirrors.
Show Me Some Science! I’m Looking Through You
In this episode we use near infrared (near-IR) light to look at and through different objects. Near-IR is a kind of light we can’t see that is just beyond the red end of the rainbow. Some things that are opaque to visible light are transparent to infrared, including plastic bags and your skin! However, the blood in your veins absorbs near-IR light and appears dark.
EveryDay Science: Forces and Torques Part 4
Brian, McKenzie and Taylor explore forces and torques in common kitchen tools. They use the relationship between force and distance to crack a walnut and slice and apple! All of these kitchen tools use either a lever or a wedge!
Oglala Lakota College Science Outreach Weekend
On the weekend of December 12, a crew of teachers and students from Oglala Lakota College (OLC) from the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota came down to CSU to build and repair experiments for their traveling hands-on science program.
Elementary Science Kits and Teacher Trainings
Little Shop of Physics partnered with Poudre School District (PSD), the Bohemian Foundation and the Rotary Club of Fort Collins to provide kits for every elementary school in the district. Based on teacher feedback, state and local standards, and materials that are already deployed in the classroom, three different types of kits were developed.
Get Your Science On: You Are the Antenna
Brian demonstrates a cool experiment that you can build with an FM radio and a metal trash bin!
EveryDay Science: Forces and Torques, Part 3
Brian, McKenzie and Taylor explore wedges and how they use the relationship between force and distance to split things apart.
Show Me Some Science! Constructive and Destructive Interference
Waves are one way in which energy can be sent down a string. When two waves meet, they interact.
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