by Aurora Lipper | Jan 21, 2013 | Homeschool Science Curriculum Resources, Science Experiments
Inside your motor are permanent magnets and an electromagnet. Normally, you’d hook up a battery to the two tabs (terminals) at the back of the motor, and your shaft would spin. However, if you spin the motor shaft with your fingers, you’ll generate electricity at the...
by Aurora Lipper | Jan 14, 2013 | Homeschool Science Curriculum Resources, Science Experiments
Want to see a really neat way to get magnetic fields to interact with each other? While levitating objects is hard, bouncing them in invisible magnetic fields is easy. In this video, you’ll see how you can take two, three, or even four magnets and have them perform...
by Aurora Lipper | Dec 7, 2012 | Homeschool Science Curriculum Resources, Science Experiments
You’d be surprised at where vitamin C pops up in your kitchen – I know I was! I found it in my broccoli, butternut squash, sweet potatoes, Swiss chard, spinach, carrots, kale, peas, leeks, tomatoes, guava, watermelon, grapefruit, pecans, raspberries, bell...
by Aurora Lipper | Dec 27, 2008 | Homeschool Science Curriculum Resources, Science Experiments
Ever wonder what Aurora’s lab is really like? You can get a sneak peek with this video – she was up late one night working on a new rocket for her Rocket Show while our camera crew was fiddling with settings on our new cameras, and we just happened to get...
