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This week's activity: Mars soil
Below are all the SCOPE activities listed under the main science or technology area they cover.
Earth and space
Select... Chemical volcano Copper refining Grow a stalactite Honeycomb pumice Mars soil Model solar system Ocean currents Rocks Search for ET Telescope Underwater volcano Where's the best surf?
Physics
Select... Balloon rocket Bottle accelerometer Bacterial battery Bouncing balls Cartesian diver Crushing cans DIY Compass Egg in a bottle Electromagnet Falling objects Float or sink Heat transfer Hula hoop Instant freeze Kaleidoscope Kicking a football Kites Lemon battery Measuring hair with lasers Measure the speed of light Mini golf physics Mousetrap racer Musical bottles Musical straw Pendulum Pulleys Rubber band boat Simple machines Skimming stones Solar barbecue Solar viewer Static Static electricity The bounce-back Warm materials
Technology
Select... Air cannon Archimedes' screw Can telephone and hydrophone Compass Decoding binary numbers Door bell How GPS works Make a buckyball Make a burglar alarm Bike gears Build a bridge Egg drop Lolly dome Low gear/High gear Make a hovercraft Natural dyes Paper gliders Solar oven Stand on eggshells Zoetrope
Living things
Select... Amber fossils Ape movement Blubber insulation Brine shrimp Bug hunter Build a turtle tank Build a vivarium Chicken wing dissection Crocodile's stomach Dissolving a shell DIY fossils Dog intelligence test Edible cell Extracting DNA Fake diarrhoea Grass head How to keep a scorpian Jitter Bug Make a terrarium Make a worm farm Make an aquarium Make insecticide Frog-friendly garden Mini vet check Pitfall trap Plant life cycle Plants to dye for Rubbery bones Shrunken heads Spider web prints Squid dissection Super glue fingerprints
Environment
Select... Cloud in a bottle Collecting water from trees Digestible plastic bags Getting oil from plants How do leaves breathe? Recycle paper Storm in a bottle Testing turbidity The effect of salt on plants Tornado in a bottle Water filtration
Chemistry
Select... Chromatography Bicarb boat Bicarb fire extinguisher Cold pack Density Column Dissolving cup Dissolving sugar Distillation Film canister rocket Freezing sea water Glow sticks Goo from glue Growing crystals Ice slicing Ink tea Invisible ink Make a lava lamp Make a snowflake Make a steam boat Make sherbet Make slime Make your own thermometer Pimple-stopping soap Pool chemistry Pop-top bottle rocket Shrinking plastic Soft drink fountain Tie dying
Senses and the brain
Select... Balance your body Coloured words Make a thaumatrope Memory test Reaction times Sensitivity Taste test
Other stuff
Select... Balloon experiments Chocolate chip biscuits Face paint Fake vomit Fake wounds Fingerprinting forensics Fishing lures Fitness test Iron in food Make butter Make yoghurt Marshmallows Swimming test Toast & toothpaste