Table of Contents

Table of Contents Lab 1 William Gilbert 1534-1603 Electricity Build a versorium electroscope Lab 2 Galileo 1564 -1642 Pendulums Play with a pendulum Lab 3 Sir Isaac Newton 1642-1727 Gravity and Laws of Motion Balance forks on a toothpick and throw eggs at a blanket Lab 4 Laura Bassi 1711-1778 Gases Make water boil at room temperature Lab 5 Benjamin Thompson (Count Rumford) 1753-1814 Thermodynamics Create a friction heat drill Lab 6 Thomas Young 1773 -1829 Wave Theory Reproduce Young's double-slit experiment Lab 7 Augustin-Jean Fresnel (1788-1827) - Light and Color Blow giant bubbles to study reflected light Lab 8 Michael Faraday 1791-1867 Electromagnetic Induction Magnetize a paper clip Lab 9 Pierre Curie 1859-1906 Piezoelectricity Crush a mint to create a flash of light Lab 10 Lisa Meitner 1878 -1968 Nuclear Fission Visualize Meitner's water droplet model using bread dough Lab 11 Albert Einstein 1879 -1955 Relativity Learn about relativity using a blanket and some balls. Lab 12 Katharine Burr Blodgett, 1898-1979 Films Coat glass with gelatin Lab 13 Cecilia Payne 1900-1979 Star Material Make hydrogen gas bubble from a battery Lab 14 Mary Golda Ross 1908 - 2008 Aerospace Design Make a water rocket Lab 15 Luis Walter Alvarez 1911-1988 Bubble Chamber Build a cloud chamber Lab 16 Ruby Payne Scott 1912-1981 Radio Bursts Create radio interference using an electrical appliance Lab 17 Chein Shiung Wu 1912 -1997 Symmetry Play with mirror images Lab 18 Warren M Washington 1936 Atmospheric Pressure Use atmospheric pressure to push an egg into a bottle Lab 19 Stephen Hawking 1942 - 2018 Black Holes Use toothpaste to model a black hole Lab 20 Christine Darder 1942 NASA Wing Design Engineer a perfect paper airplane Lab 21 Joselyn Ball Burnell born 1943 Pulsars Squeeze a foam ball to see how stars collapse Lab 22 Valerie L. Thomas 1943 Illusion Transmitter Make illusion transmitter using concave mirror and glowsticks Lab 23 Nadya Mason Conductivity/ Carbon Draw a graphite circuit on paper and light an LED Lab 24 Chanda Prescod-Weinstein Cosmology Use a balloon to visualize the expansion of the universe. Lab 25 Burcin Mutlu-Pakdil Galaxies Play a golf ball game to learn how galaxies rotate

About the Author

Liz Lee Heinecke has loved science since she was old enough to inspect her first butterfly. After working in molecular biology research for 10 years and earning her master's degree, she left the lab to kick off a new chapter in her life as a stay-at-home mom. Soon, she found herself sharing her love of science with her three kids as they grew, chronicling their science adventures on her KitchenPantryScientist website. Her desire to share her enthusiasm for science led to regular television appearances, an opportunity to serve as an Earth Ambassador for NASA, and the creation of an iPhone app. Her goal is to make it simple for parents to do science with kids of all ages, and for kids to experiment safely on their own. Liz graduated from Luther College and received her master's degree in bacteriology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She is the author of Kitchen Science Lab for Kids, Kitchen Science Lab for Kids: Edible Edition, Outdoor Science Lab for Kids, STEAM Lab for Kids, and Little Learning Labs: Kitchen Science for Kids. Her namesake series, The Kitchen Pantry Scientist, pairs illustrated biographies with engaging hands-on activities inspired by their work. The books in that series include: Chemistry for Kids, Biology for Kids, and Physics for Kids.

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